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 ...

This video explores the elegance of traditional Japanese architecture and the craftsmanship behind it. It highlights natural ...

Photographer Paul Tulett has toured Japan to publish a book documenting the country's vast collection of concrete edifices. Here, he spotlights nine unusual examples featured in it. The book, fully ...

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 ...

Arata Isozaki, a city planner, architect, and theorist, is the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, the annual award regarded as the Nobel Prize for architecture. The 87-year-old, who designed the ...

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 ...

Shigeru Ban’s Open House with Condensed Core proposes that plumbing water and waste could be funneled through the ceiling instead of floors to provide more organizational flexibility. Floor-to-ceiling ...

In major structures in a dozen countries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Mr. Isozaki absorbed and reinterpreted Eastern and Western traditions. By Joseph Giovannini Arata ...

At the beginning of 2020, interior designer Brygida Michon and her husband, Neil Rajpal, had just moved back from Paris to New York, and were looking for a tranquil home away from home, outside of the ...

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 ...