Wednesday, May 15, 2013

10 Japanese Micro Homes That Redefine Living Small

If you listen to the architect Kengo Kuma, the craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, started in the thirteenth century, when the poet Kamo no Chomei penned an essay about the joys of living in a shack called An Account of My Hut. Contemporaneously speaking, though, micro homes became a thing in the 1990s, when rising real estate prices and a nagging recession spurred many young Tokyo residents to reconsider suburbia.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6EUFrrf6Ptc/10-japanese-kyosho-jutaku-micro-homes-that-redefine-l-504374362

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