Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

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 ...

The Japanese House Since 1945, by Naomi Pollock. Foreword by Tadao Ando. Thames & Hudson, 400 pages, $85, click to enlarge. “For Japanese architecture, the history of its modernization has also been a ...

Traditional thought fused with modern science when Hiroshima’s nuclear annihilation on August 6, 1945, proved the interdependence of space and time. Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the ...

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...

Just as the color and scent of flowers are influenced by sunlight, water, and air, so the beauty of architecture also depends on its natural environment. This is particularly true of Japanese ...

According to Günter Nitschke in his book about Japanese Gardens, the washitsu emerged alongside the development of the Japanese dry landscape garden during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. During ...

In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...

The Seto Inland Sea in Japan, nestled between the Hiroshima, Okayama, Hyogo, Kagawa and Ehime prefectures that form the Seto Inland region, is a treasure trove of 20th and 21st-century architecture ...