Uncrating the Japanese house
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Exploring the fruits of cross-cultural collaboration, Uncrating the Japanese House takes a look at the architecture of Junzō Yoshimura, Antonin and Noémi Raymond and George Nakashima at the intersection where Japanese and Quaker functionality collide. Taking three now-famous mid-century American buildings as case studies, Uncrating the Japanese House celebrates a kind of embodied translation and the need to create living spaces that readily adapt to wherever they are placed. Chief among them is Yoshimura's Shofuso House built in Nagoya and shipped to New York where it was unboxed and rebuilt at Moma before being relocated to Philadelphia where it still stands. Circumnavigating the need to create the garish, urban monstrosities that populate most cosmopolitan areas today, Yoshimura's work appreciates flexibility and unobtrusive practicality without sacrificing the cultural ties that make it undeniably Japanese.