Japanese Minimalist Houses: Top Photos

Silence, wood, and light in the tradition that taught the world what emptiness can do

Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka, in Japan, 1976
Tadao Ando's Azuma House, Osaka, 1976 — the same gravitational relationship to light and silence as a seventeenth-century teahouse, translated into concrete. The tradition answers new questions. © Oiuysdfg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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