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MUJI challenges our strong belief that houses are “bigger, the better.” Meet their lovely, engaging houses -- exactly because they are small....
MUJI challenges our strong belief that houses are “bigger, the better.” Meet their lovely, engaging houses -- exactly because they are small....
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...
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....
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....
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....
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...
Airbnb & Go Hasegawa designed Yoshino Cedar House to re-brand traditional values denied by modern economy. Airbnb helps locals share such values globally....
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, 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...
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...
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...
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,"...
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...
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....
We assume efficiency always brings us best outcome, but then why aren't socks L-shaped? Check MUJI's perpendicular, "Good fit right angle" socks that fit our body just right....