How to Make a Japanese House

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Japan has the world's smallest, most ingeniously and successfully built homes. How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. From a Western perspective, where more space is better, small interiors may once have seemed undesirable, but Japanese architects have long excelled at overcoming the limitations of building in densely populated areas and creating brilliant effects of spaciousness with minimal square footage. As urban areas across the world grow only more dense in population, a knack for the economic handling and design of domestic space has clearly established itself as a key virtue of contemporary architectural practice. Through a rich array of research, interviews, drawings, and photographs, How to Make a Japanese House demonstrates that Japanese homes present a radically different way of thinking about architecture and provide inspiration for dwelling on a smaller scale.

Edited by Cathelijne Nuijsink, Paperback 327 pages