Small Houses Contemporary Japanese Dwellings

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Small Houses documents the current approaches of Japapanese residential architecture and provides detailed information about the cultural and design background.

When designing small residences, Japanese architects play with the boundaries of space, employ unusual materials, and develop new concepts for living together.

The creativity of Japan's architects is revealed by their buildings and by their ability to organize even the tiniest space. The short life of residential buildings has led to an enormous store of architecture ideas, and Small Houses documents the current approaches.

Japanese residential buildings are and have always been a seismograph of current trends in the country's architecture. The evolution this housing type has undergone since the early days of Japanese modernism is therefore the subject .