How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. 324 pgs / 146 color.Įmail Trade Sales: to Make a Japanese House ![]() GOOD NEWS: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE MARSILIO ARTE ISBN: 9791254630778įORENSIC ARCHITECTURE: WITNESSES LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ISBN: 9788793659551įORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. ROYALTY AND ARCHITECTURE BOKFöRLAGET STOLPE ISBN: 9789189425958 WRITINGPLACE JOURNAL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURE 7 NAI010 PUBLISHERS ISBN: 9789462087705ĪRCHITECTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS NAI010 PUBLISHERS ISBN: 9789462087866ĭATAPOLIS NAI010 PUBLISHERS ISBN: 9789462087194 OASE 115: INTERFERENCES MOVING ACROSS EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE CULTURES NAI010 PUBLISHERS ISBN: 9789462087835 NOCTURNAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE SPECTOR BOOKS ISBN: 9783959056748ĢG: ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN ISBN: 9783753303109ĢG: CARLA JUAçABA WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN ISBN: 9783753302584īIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2023: THE LABORATORY OF THE FUTURE LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA/SILVANA EDITORIALE ISBN: 9788836654512 That’s why we feel depth.’" continue to blog In House N each layer works like shakkei. Compare it with the effect of shakkei (borrowed scenery) used in the arrangement of a traditional Japanese garden. The garden, the neighbors and the sky contain an equal hierarchy. Through the openings we can see the garden, but also the sky and the not-so-attractive old houses of the neighbors. When inside the house many layers surround us, and the garden is one of those layers. Only walls are left and the window frames hold no glass. I made a garden, covered by a huge box that resembles a ruin of an ancient structure. Secondly, I tried to create something that is back-to-basics. Fujimoto explains, "I wanted to propose a new prototype for a house with a garden in the city, with a contradiction built into it: it has a garden that seems to be both inside and outside. Featured image, of Masahiro Harada's "Rainy Sunny" house in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, is reproduced from How to Make a Japanese House.įROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE How to Make a Japanese House Architect Sou Fujimoto's 2008 reinforced concrete "House N" in Oita, Japan, is a featured project in nai010 Publishers' fascinating bestseller, How to Make a Japanese House. Through a rich array of research, interviews, drawings and photographs, How to Make a Japanese House demonstrates that Japanese homes present a radically different way of thinking about architecture, and provide inspiration for dwelling on a smaller scale. As urban areas across the world grow only more dense in population, a knack for the economic handling and design of domestic space has clearly established itself as a key virtue of contemporary architectural practice. From the Western perspective, in which more space is better space, small interiors may once have seemed undesirable, but Japanese architects have long excelled at overcoming the limitations of building in densely populated areas and creating brilliant effects of spaciousness with minimal square footage. ![]()
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