Here we tour the best modern residential Japanese houses designed by international and local architects, from inventive interiors in central Tokyo to clever constructions in Kyoto. The Japanese house ...

In an agricultural village in Nagaoka, a city in Japan's Niigata Prefecture, sits a tent-shaped house called Hara House. Takeru Shoji Architects, an architecture design studio based in Japan ...

A new book from Phaidon chronicles the unconventional style of Japanese ... architects like Sou Fujimoto, Ryue Nishizawa (of SANAA), and Terunobu Fujimori, as well as the Muji prefab house.

In architecture ... most emblematic works by this major Japanese architect. In the mountains of Nagano, a tiny teahouse ...

Tokyo-based Schemata Architects have renovated a traditional Japanese residence into a modern dwelling with an office, while keeping many of the 80-year-old building’s original features intact.

When they laid eyes on The Falls, a 1960s midcentury-modern home with Japanese architectural influences, they instantly fell in love. “As soon as we walked into the house, the light was ...

such innovations have made Japanese architecture a leading force in contemporary home design. A new book, The Japanese House Reinvented (Monacelli Press) by Philip Jodidio, surveys over 50 ...

For a couple in Fukuoka, Japan, a prefecture capital of 1.6 million inhabitations on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu, local firm NKS2 Architects inverted the typical suburban house ...

Modern touches include heated wooden ... Heywood hopes to use one of the buildings as a guest house, to introduce Japanese culture and architecture. He's also dreaming bigger, and talks about ...

We tour the best Japanese architecture and modern Japanese houses designed by international and local architects that open up possibilities for all types of lifestyle, from minimalist to communal in ...