At the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair, the Japanese project developer Mitsui Fudosan presented a concept home called Tsunago, designed by Kengo Kuma. The home showed ideas and concepts that the company wanted to use in apartment buildings for the Japanese market. Tsunago means ‘connect’, and Kuma elaborated on this theme on various levels. A connection to Japanese culture was created by imbuing the home with elements of traditional (residential) architecture. The walls of the house were designed as bamboo screens, known in Japan as sumushiko. Kuma here not only interwove his design with the Japanese building tradition; the transparent character of the sumushiko also focused on the connection between the inner world of the home and the outside wo...
Abstract: In 1922, Bunkamura (“Culture Village”), modern Japan’s first model house exhibition, was h...
Acculturation is an interactive and continuous process that develops within and through the communic...
Japanese buildings are traditionally built according to the post and lintel principle. They are most...
The story behind the house built by Seyseysha in Kamogawa (Chiba) began with a couple who wanted a h...
Traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture is examined, with focus on the characteristics of...
Japanese traditional architecture from its origins is harmonized with the natural environment. The r...
The final paper is titled \"Katsura: An Architecture of Edo Period\". The reason of the writer discu...
In the rapid modernization, Japanese architecture faced with cultural conflicts and confusion in for...
In recent decades Japan has experienced major economic, social and environmental events. As evidence...
For this project we were to research the life of one of the most significant Japanese architects, Ke...
SHOGIN TACT TSURUOKA (Tsuruoka Cultural hall) is a multipurpose hall that serves as a base for cultu...
The research on space in Japanese architecture resulted in a number of spatial characteristics. Thes...
In recent decades Japan has experienced major economic, social and environmental events. As evidence...
Harmonization between architecture and nature is one principle deeply rooted in traditional Japanese...
With the possible exception of woodblock prints, no phase of Japanese civilization has been so much ...
Abstract: In 1922, Bunkamura (“Culture Village”), modern Japan’s first model house exhibition, was h...
Acculturation is an interactive and continuous process that develops within and through the communic...
Japanese buildings are traditionally built according to the post and lintel principle. They are most...
The story behind the house built by Seyseysha in Kamogawa (Chiba) began with a couple who wanted a h...
Traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture is examined, with focus on the characteristics of...
Japanese traditional architecture from its origins is harmonized with the natural environment. The r...
The final paper is titled \"Katsura: An Architecture of Edo Period\". The reason of the writer discu...
In the rapid modernization, Japanese architecture faced with cultural conflicts and confusion in for...
In recent decades Japan has experienced major economic, social and environmental events. As evidence...
For this project we were to research the life of one of the most significant Japanese architects, Ke...
SHOGIN TACT TSURUOKA (Tsuruoka Cultural hall) is a multipurpose hall that serves as a base for cultu...
The research on space in Japanese architecture resulted in a number of spatial characteristics. Thes...
In recent decades Japan has experienced major economic, social and environmental events. As evidence...
Harmonization between architecture and nature is one principle deeply rooted in traditional Japanese...
With the possible exception of woodblock prints, no phase of Japanese civilization has been so much ...
Abstract: In 1922, Bunkamura (“Culture Village”), modern Japan’s first model house exhibition, was h...
Acculturation is an interactive and continuous process that develops within and through the communic...
Japanese buildings are traditionally built according to the post and lintel principle. They are most...