Minimal Japanese Homes

From prefab to live/work, these unadorned Japanese homes share a love of simple design.

None of the ten units is purely communal, but detached Unit C, Yasuo Moriyama’s...

Thanks to its translucent envelope of polycarbonate plastic, the house glows like a firefly at night and is so bright...

Yurika Ninomiya says good morning to busy central Nagoya from her third-floor bedroom while husband Takuya opens up the...

Concrete planters frame the facade—a union of monolithic slabs that offers privacy and compositional integrity to the...

Imai House by Katsutoshi Sasaki +...

The unusual configuration produces new relationships between a terrace and a room.

The black facade of the Yatabes’ house may turn a darkly futuristic face to its suburban block, but behind it the house...