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 ...

Contemporary Japanese Architecture (cover). Courtesy of TASCHEN. The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite ...

Over the years, influences of Japanese architecture and design have spread throughout the architecture community. The clean and minimalistic aesthetics of the Japanese combined with their integration ...

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 ...