Special feature: The Primitive Beauty

Studies in residential design: Toshihito Yokouchi / Kosuke Izumi / Chitoshi Kihara / Yoshiji Takehara / Yasushi Horibe / Akira Fujii / Ryoichi Knoshita

Keiichi Taira, Architectural Journalist

‘What is important with residential architecture is to feel it with the bottom of the feet. What you feel there echoes through the head.’ stresses Mr Taira. The work based on the sense of daily life as an example is ‘House with a Front Garden’ by Toshihito Yokouchi (…) ’It seems as if a space is achieved based on actual experience of life through placing the feet on the earth. The size of the space is good too, as it came from a real experience. It is not just large. It makes us feel our own presence and divided spaces. There is a subtle taste within the large space’

Landscape gardener: The world of Mitsumori Furukawa Summer hut
Hanayose (flower arrangement)
Special feature: Aspiration for White
Four studies in residential design: Shin Ohori / Tamotsu Teshima / Yumi Kori + Toshiya Endo / Hiroshi Seki
‘Visiting a village in the Cyclades in Greece’ text by Soichi Hata
Japan Quality selection: Built-in kitchen