"The goal was to look at things from 500, 700, 800 years ago that are still useful," says homeowner Wes Crouch. "Simple, ...

It is all about the progression through the spaces. We have often seen new Japanese houses that are...weird, and certainly not "traditional." Sumiou Mizumoto of Alts Design Office shows us a new house ...

Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car. From left, Takina Shimura and his parents, Tomoko Shimura and Yoshiki Shimura, in their compact house in Zushi, Japan, a ...

Tiny house design and traditional Japanese aesthetics go hand in hand, and this brand-new house on wheels proves it. A true masterclass in contemporary Japanese-inspired minimalism, the ...

Whereas western architectural tradition aspires to permanence – an Englishman’s home is his castle, after all – Japanese architecture is focused on flexibility. A close harmony with the natural world ...

Tokyo-based Schemata Architects have renovated a traditional Japanese residence into a modern dwelling with an office, while keeping many of the 80-year-old building’s original features intact.

Shofuso, a 17th-century-style house that was designed by one of Japan’s most well-known architects, Junzō Yoshimura, was constructed in 1953. It became one of the most influential Japanese homes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brooklyn’s famous Japanese House is more than just a home to current owner Gloria Fischer. Fischer, who bought 131 Buckingham Road with her husband in 1972, sees the one-of-a-kind historic house as ...

The back of a 1980s colonial-style residence in suburban Boston might sound like an incongruous location for a centuries-old traditional Japanese house, or minka. Nevertheless, in the bedroom ...