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Japan: Archipelago of the House

Japan’s residential architecture has long been the content darling of international design bimonthlies, guaranteed as it is to immediately appeal, fascinate and/or shock. These are the kinds of homes readers want to see in print and the types of projects that make an editor salivate because they look so damn good on the page. There’s something about modern Japanese houses, a very particular materiality and spatiality that render

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