Sep 4, 2012

Somewhere, not so far away, is a small Buddhist temple where the flowers bloom year round. The gardens are planned with care, so that regardless of the season everyone who sets foot on the temple grounds are greeted with the beauty of flowers. (Continued after the Japanese...

Nov 28, 2011

The Japanese architect Sakakura Junzō 坂倉 準三 (1901-1969) led a charmed life. The man with a degree in art history from the Tokyo Imperial University was accepted into Le Corbusier’s atelier in Paris, stayed there for seven years, and then went on to become one of the most famous modernist architects in Japan. It seems that Sakakura only formally...