Author Archives: Ken Tadashi Oshima

With her boundless imagination and quietly disruptive ideas, the co-founder of Japanese practice SANAA plays a critical role as a modernist trailblazer

The young boxer turned self-trained architect mastered a signature style of concrete and shadow in Japan before exploding onto the global scene

AR_EA 2015 Commended

AR House 2013 Joint Winner: allusions to ritual and a spirit of sensuality inform this hermetic house in Japan

A glittering facade of suspended glass blocks veils Hiroshi Nakamura’s winning entry to the ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture

In a formerly shabby area of downtown Tokyo, a tourist information tower, with traditional wooden elements referring to a local temple, offers visitors new perspectives over the city

Drawing on Japan’s still fertile architectural culture, which continues to present younger firms with opportunities, Japanese architects extend their record of excellence in the Awards, encapsulating the resilience of those who came of age in Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’