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a light touch; With her simple, evanescent forms, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima is making a poetic impact on the American landscape.
Byline: Rowan Moore
Take a site in Tokyo and build a house on it. The site is small, as they mostly are in that city, and the house is for a young couple, their two children, and a grandmother. You might perhaps build the house to its site boundaries to maximize space and to make it as open as possible inside. You probably would not pull it back from its edges to make room for some plum trees nor add to an already crowded program such nonessentials as a studio, a library, and a reading area, and the void spaces made by double-height ceilings, such that fifteen rooms are packed into this tiny domicile. You might not build bedrooms the width of a bed, to be entered ...
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