30 exceptional works selected and carefully redrawn are presented together with three articles that bring us closer to discover the current Japanese collective housing, urban and shocking.
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[…] How long can one reduce the dimensions of adwelling and still call ti a ‘house’? By house we mean the building where one lives, the space that shelters one’s life, as an individual or in a family. In Europe, we hace traditioanlly viewed with a mixture of fascination and unease the images of minimal housing that have been coming to us from Japan, increasingly smaller houses and flats, where life is compressed into multi-purpose spaces. Flats in which theis inhabitants hace presumably had to adapt to living in the minuscule, limiting theis living habits because there is only room for the bare essentials. From our perspective, it is enough to look at the floors and sections of the pensil buildings to feel an acute sense of claustrophobia. […]