Minimal Japanese Homes

None of the ten units is purely communal, but detached Unit C, Yasuo Moriyama’s “living room,” functions the most...

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 + Associates Sasaki also loosened up the potentially confining space with an excess of...

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...