“As a floating capsule of civility the house embodied the dawn of a new era,” Florian Idenburg, a partner at the New York architecture firm SO-IL has written. “It showed Japan could rise ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full ...

He also adopted the use of the continuous eaves found in Japanese sukiya architecture (a residential typology linked to the traditional tea ceremony); only giving them a more contemporary twist by ...

In "Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process," professor Dana Buntrock explains how Japanese designers, manufacturers and construction firms work together to produce the country's famously ...

Much of that is due to Japan’s architecture. In preparation for the frequent quakes that occur in the nation, where four tectonic plates meet, Japan has adjusted its standards for structural ...

“As a floating capsule of civility the house embodied the dawn of a new era,” Florian Idenburg, a partner at the New York architecture firm SO-IL has written. “It showed Japan could rise ...