Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual living environments in contemporary homes. The key to his approach is what might be called The Three Cs '-compact, comfortable, and convenient. Use of space is reconsidered, with'
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Weight: 539g
Dimensions: 228 x 278mm
Publication Date: 16 Nov 2012
Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781568364544
About Azby Brown
AZBY BROWN is an architect who has lived in Japan since 1985. A native of New Orleans he received a bachelor's degree in f ine art from Yale College in 1980 and a master's degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in 1988. He is also the author of The Genius of Japanese Carpentry and The Japanese Dream House: How Technology and Tradition Are Shaping New Home Design. His visual and verbal ideas have reached a wide international audience through frequent lectures publications and exhibitions.YOSHIO SHIRATORI has photographed interiors and exteriors since 1962. He was the recipient of the Interior Designers' Association prize in 1987. Shiratori's work appears in major Japanese design and architecture magazines throughout Japan.