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The Contemporary Tea House
The tea house is one of Japan's most original and significant architectural forms.
The tea house is one of Japan's most original and significant architectural forms—a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring and a low entrance.
Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of redefining this highly formalized and constrained idiom almost impossible to resist. The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal the way world-renowned Japanese architects approach this intriguing subject using materials as disparate as charcoal, plastic and titanium. The participating architects are Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Terunobu Fujimori, Hiroshi Hara and Kengo Kuma.
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Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of redefining this highly formalized and constrained idiom almost impossible to resist. The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal the way world-renowned Japanese architects approach this intriguing subject using materials as disparate as charcoal, plastic and titanium. The participating architects are Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Terunobu Fujimori, Hiroshi Hara and Kengo Kuma.
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