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 ...
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 ...
INTEREST in Japanese architecture seems to be steadily rising in the United States. American architectural periodicals show an increasing impact of Japanese influence. The Japanese “Pine Breeze House” ...
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 ...
Serpentine Pavilion 2019, Design Render, Exterior View, © Junya Ishigami + Associates Ishigami's design for the pavilion takes the form of a slate sheet rising from ...
A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studio Permanent. Located in Hashima, the ...