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Want to design your own living style? apply for MUJI House
MUJI challenges our strong belief that houses are “bigger, the better.” Meet their lovely, engaging houses -- exactly because they are small....
Hiragana-No Spiral House: Yuko Nagayama x Panasonic
This summarizes the major aspect of what modern architecture has been attempting to achieve: stability and security. “But I am increasingly fascinated by a house made of straw,” says architect Yuko Nagayama, who designed HIRAGANA-NO...
Woodgrain House: House Vision 2016
Find new potential of state-of-the-art printing technology in architecture and living environment, reviving hard-to-obtain natural wood in a unique way....
Rental Space Tower by Sou Fujimoto: House Vision 2016
Architect Sou Fujimoto is a master of "ambiguity." With Rental Space Tower, he maximizes the joy of sharing by blurring the boundaries of private ownership....
Grand Third Living: Kengo Kuma x Toyota House Vision 2016
At House Vision, Toyota and architect Kengo Kuma focuses on the mobility of cars. Toyota’s plug-in hybrid Prius is equipped with solar panels and has quite a substantial battery storage. It’s a mobile energy generator....
Horyuji: World’s oldest surviving wooden architecture
Tanada Terrace Office: MUJI x Atelier Bow-Wow House Vision 2016
MUJI's Tanada Terrace Office was developed as an extended office installed in a rural area in order to explore a flexible and organic relationship between urban workers and rural farmers. MUJI employees would work at Tanada Office...
Yoshino-sugi Cedar House : Go Hasegawa x Airbnb
Airbnb & Go Hasegawa designed Yoshino Cedar House to re-brand traditional values denied by modern economy. Airbnb helps locals share such values globally....
Open House with Condensed Core: House Vision 2016
Architect Shigeru Ban has been actively involved in disaster relief projects in many parts of the world, by designing and providing temporary shelters. When he imagined a next generation house, it became tiny, flexible, mobile,...
Engawa
Engawa, the narrow wooden strips attached around the periphery of a house has been an indispensable part of the traditional Japanese house, functioning as a sun porch, a workshop, a venue for socializing and a buffer to shield the...
Anonymous is beautiful: “The Profiles of Design” by Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa's style is very unique: it talks a lot without uttering any words. His sleek, minimalist and quiet design makes you feel like it’s almost dissolving into the surroundings. However, while his products blend with the...
Zero perspectives in “Small Architecture” by Kengo Kuma
Kuma's book, "Small Architecture," is full of inspiration that questions the myth of modern architecture, which has become excessively big, hard and alienating. He advocates small architecture as an alternative, due to its boundless...
Aesthetics of “emptiness”: Kenya Hara, designer of Zero
Kenya Hara is a Japanese graphic designer who has been playing a pivotal role shaping MUJI's brand philosophy. As a member of MUJI's Advisory Board since 2001, along with Naoto Fukasawa, he strengthened the concept of "emptiness,"...
We are all in this together: re-thinking design & architecture
“Great Transformation of Architecture”: Toyo Ito and Sustainable Architecture
Ito questions modern architecture, especially public infrastructure, which heavily relies on placing something big, hard and sturdy in-between nature and humans. Modern architecture and infrastructure attempts to draw...
Shigeru Ban: Connecting nature and human through natural disaster
How much is sufficient? “80% Full Product” by MUJI
Pursuing "just right" (not too much, not too little), MUJI uses the slogan "fitness80" to ask what the "just right" level/amount is for humans....
