Architect Tadao Ando once described the stadium as having announced “the birth of a modern Japanese architecture.” Both are now slated for demolition, but they’re not going down without a fight.

The last building to which I take you, in Plato 10, constitutes a great leap in time, from feudalism to ferro-concrete shell modern: architect Kenzo Tange’s 1953 gymnasium and Community Center ...

Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens, a shoin house (a type of traditional Japanese residential architecture) subtly infused with modernist details, was built in Japan in 1953 by the Tokyo-based ...

Fujimori tracks these two contrasting sensibilities through Japanese modern architecture’s evolution. He points out that certain members of Ito’s generation — like Ito himself, ...

Kengo Kuma, the world-renowned Japanese architect, is famous for his designs that seamlessly blend tradition and modernity.

OSAKA, Japan >> Through various collaborative efforts, traditional Japanese crafts such as washi (Japanese paper), textiles ...

Designing the modern Japanese home. 14 December 2017. Share Save. Liza Foreman. Features correspondent. ... The exhibition, Japan-ness: Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, ...

Kenzo Tange, whose reconciliation of traditional Japanese architecture with modernity shaped Japan’s rise from the ashes of World War II, died of heart failure at his Tokyo home Tuesday. He was 91.

C4L is a modern Japanese house with a traditional twist. The residence, situated in the heart of Tokyo, draws on traditional Japanese architecture as well as notions of home, designed by Hitoshi ...