Following its very own principles, Japanese architecture is a true exhibition in balance: balance between history and modernity, between tradition and innovation. It is everything from centuries-old ...

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It is all about the progression through the spaces. We have often seen new Japanese houses that are...weird, and certainly not "traditional." Sumiou Mizumoto of Alts Design Office shows us a new house ...

NARASHINO, Chiba -- The designer of a university library in this eastern Japan city apparently believed that architecture is a culmination of expressi･･･ ...

This minimal, wood and concrete home sits right on the Tokyo Bay waterfront in the Japanese town of Tateyama, about 75 minutes from the Japanese capital. The three-bedroom house enjoys both direct ...

"Although it has long been accepted that America's most famous modern architect was influenced by traditional Japanese culture, the nature of Frank Lloyd Wright's creative debt to Japan has remained ...

Hong Kong-based architectural studio Sim-Plex has created a stunning micro-home inspired by Japanese culture. The U. Izakaya House in the 57-story Grand Waterfront Plaza, Hong Kong, boasts clever ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...