How to Make a Japanese House
Cathelijne Nuijsink
Language: English
Pages: 324
ISBN: 905662850X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of 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. 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. 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.
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Despite its local inspirations and context-sensitive construction rules that do not apply outside Japan, the Japanese single-family home sets an example as a global design challenge. The largest developing countries in the world are currently undergoing a process of growing urbanization. Migration to the cities and the resulting shortage of space will force people to be satisfied with living in fewer square metres. In contrast to the high-end luxury villas most people can only dream of, the