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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILAN — Leading Japanese architect Kengo Kuma brought the sort of operatic grandeur he infuses into his monumental buildings everywhere from Tokyo to Dallas to the stage. The award-winning architect ...

At first glance, Japan and Scandinavia may not seem the most obvious pairing. Thousands of miles apart, they differ vastly in climate and culture. Yet a fusion of Japanese and Scandi design aesthetics ...

In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York hosted an intriguing exhibition titled *‘Japan’s Constellation: Ito Toyo, SANAA, and Beyond,’* exploring contemporary Japanese architecture. The ...

Readers of RECORD have always been intrigued by houses that architects design for themselves. One reason is that, without client-driven compromises, the completed project is more likely to embody its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...