This special issue of Japan Architect magazine features proposals for contemporary houses that turn toward the city, organised around two axes: houses that connect things, and houses that are thrown out into the city. What they have in common is that, instead of regarding the house as actor and the city as background, both are viewed from a single approach. This issue explores how a redefinition of the urban order in Japan since the turn of the century has led to a transition for both houses and architecture from static to dynamic.

Featuring more than a dozen homes and residential projects by a range of architects, including Go Hasegawa, Takahashi Ippei, Erika Nakagawa, Ryue Nishizawa, and others.

PROJECTS

House M, Office of Kumiko Inui + Tokyo University of Arts Inui Lab. + Ryugo Ichikawa
House in Kyodo, Go Hasegawa and Associates
Casa O, TAKAHASHI IPPEI OFFICE
Painter House MURAYAMA + KATO ARCHITECTURE /mtka
Yoyogi Terrace FUJIWALABO
house A, shop B KimuraMatsumoto Architects
House in Kawasaki Taichi Mitsuya & Associates
Momoyama House Erika Nakagawa Office
House in Rokko Yo Shimada
Garden & House Office of Ryue Nishizawa
SHAREyaraicho Satoko Shinohara + Spatial Design Studio + Ayano Uchimura + A Studio
Dragon Court Village Junya Inagaki + Satoshi Sano + Takuo Nagai + Eisuke Hori / Eureka
MOKU-CHIN RECIPE(application to Pin! Hiraharabashi) MOKU-CHIN KIKAKU

This special issue of Japan Architect magazine features proposals for contemporary houses that turn toward the city, organised around two axes: houses that connect things, and houses that are thrown out into the city. What they have in common is that, instead of regarding the house as actor and the city as background, both are viewed from a single approach. This issue explores how a redefinition of the urban order in Japan since the turn of the century has led to a transition for both houses and architecture from static to dynamic.

Featuring more than a dozen homes and residential projects by a range of architects, including Go Hasegawa, Takahashi Ippei, Erika Nakagawa, Ryue Nishizawa, and others.

PROJECTS

House M, Office of Kumiko Inui + Tokyo University of Arts Inui Lab. + Ryugo Ichikawa
House in Kyodo, Go Hasegawa and Associates
Casa O, TAKAHASHI IPPEI OFFICE
Painter House MURAYAMA + KATO ARCHITECTURE /mtka
Yoyogi Terrace FUJIWALABO
house A, shop B KimuraMatsumoto Architects
House in Kawasaki Taichi Mitsuya & Associates
Momoyama House Erika Nakagawa Office
House in Rokko Yo Shimada
Garden & House Office of Ryue Nishizawa
SHAREyaraicho Satoko Shinohara + Spatial Design Studio + Ayano Uchimura + A Studio
Dragon Court Village Junya Inagaki + Satoshi Sano + Takuo Nagai + Eisuke Hori / Eureka
MOKU-CHIN RECIPE(application to Pin! Hiraharabashi) MOKU-CHIN KIKAKU