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Little Houses in a Big City.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Imamura Souhei
The "Nagaya in Sumiyoshi" - a small and curiously linear 14m deep concrete house with a 3.5m wide frontage - is the work that brought prominence to Ando Tadao, now the most famous Japanese architect in the world. The nagaya (row house) is the traditional form of urban housing in Japan dating back several hundred years. It is, like the Ando house, a long narrow building facing the inner plot of land with only a small section facing the road. As a result, like the traditional nagaya, the Ando house also has an extremely simple frontage. Only an 80cm wide by 2.3m high opening cut ...
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