CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/9/2016

A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond

Sou Fujimoto's House NA, Tokyo, is reproduced from A Japanese Constellation, Toyo Ito, SAANA, and Beyond, published to accompany The Museum of Modern Art's "timely reminder of the beauty and daring that can be brought to public architecture, and the questing intellect required to push the profession forward," in the words of Alexandra Lange writing for the New York Times. Of House NA, MoMA's Phoebe Springstubb writes, "The conventional image of domestic space as a static enclosure is reenvisioned as a kinetic, open-ended progression of living spaces. Conceived in early sketches as the diagram of a tree, the house is described by Fujimoto as having 'many branches,' which, unlike separate 'hermetically isolated rooms, are connected and continually redefining each other."