Prologue ___ 4
A House with a Center - Tsutomu Abe ___ 8
Okayama House - Akio Kamiya ___ 22
House of the Stacked Fsu000f; - Hiroaki Otani ___ 36
VEEN-Kira Moriko ___ 48
Zig House/Jag House - Nobuaki Furuya ___ 64
Sapporo House - Katono Tetsu ___ 76
Noshiro's House - Naya Manabu, Naya Arata ___ 88
Tanaka Residence - Tanaka Gen ___ 102
Kasa-K-Kobayashi Takeshi ___ 116
Foo-Matsuno Ben, Aizawa Kumi ___ 130
Tsukuba House I - Kodama Yuichiro ___ 144
Nils' Ferryboat House - Nils Hansen ___ 158
Dog House - Kinoshita Michiro ___ 172
Gazebo-Yamamoto Riken ___ 188
Pepper's House - Shigenori Sato ___ 204
Yangmingshan u001du0004?Leng?Jip-Chen Lösien ___ 220
Our Home - Hayashi Shoji, Hayashi Masako ___ 234
A House in the Forest - Oda Noritsuku ___ 250
Jiteiu000b?f-Izumi Kosuke ___ 264
The House of Nobillara - Yasuo Watanabe ___ 280
N House - Nagayama Moritaka ___ 296
Bungeo u0006u001a居-Kinoshita Yoko ___ 310
An Ordinary House - Shinichiro Akasaka ___ 326
House SA-Kazunari Sakamoto ___ 342
epilogue ___ 358
copy right ___ 359

The third installment of Yoshifumi Nakamura's pilgrimage to the home of the master of residential architecture.

"The House Where an Architect Lives" is an architectural tour written by Yoshifumi Nakamura while visiting the homes of Japanese architects.
This is the third home tour series following “Architecture of My Heart” and “Pilgrimage to Home,” which were both released in Korea. In this home pilgrimage series, we explore the homes of Japanese architects in various parts of the world, including the United States, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.
From the 'Tanaka Residence' reminiscent of Charles Eames' house, to 'Niel's Ferryboat House', which was converted from an old ferry on the verge of closure into a home and studio, and 'House with a Center' reminiscent of an animal sanctuary, we visited a total of 24 of the architect's homes and thoroughly examined their inner workings.

Yoshifumi Nakamura, who founded his own architectural design office at the age of thirty-two, is an architect who has specialized in designing only houses.
As he approaches his fifties, he embarks on a journey to visit the 20th-century masterpieces he had admired as a student and to look back on his journey to date.
While serializing his tour in a Japanese media outlet, he visited masterpiece houses that would remain in the history of 20th-century housing. As he finished the series, he realized that many of the masterpiece houses were actually the architects' own homes.


What if an architect built his own house?

Architect Philip Johnson, known as the godfather of 20th-century architecture, is thought to have worked freely and without restraint, but it seems that even for him, the existence of a 'client' was inevitable.
In Diary of an Eccentric Architect, a documentary film in which Johnson himself appears and tours his home building in Connecticut, he says:


"Architects are the worst people.
“The only great architect I have is myself!”
The author of this book, Yoshifumi Nakamura, confessed that he remembered sympathizing with this scene, and that when he was contacted by a Japanese magazine to serialize "Architectural Readings," the first thing that came to mind was this quote by Philip Johnson.
I don't know for sure, but most architects who saw that scene, not just Nakamura, would have sympathized with that scene.

That's how the idea of ​​visiting and touring the architect's home was born.
What does the home of an architect who has become the 'best client' and demonstrated his 'best skills' look like?

A house built by an architect and a house in which an architect lives

The twenty-four houses featured in this book are even more special because they contain glimpses into the architect's life.
Unlike usual, there was no need to check the client's complexion or engage in a tense war of nerves with the client. The architect simply demonstrated his skills according to his own convictions. In this house, everything is clearly revealed, including the architect's ideals and beliefs, the skills and sensibilities he acquired through his whole body, and sometimes even his outlook on life and personality.


In addition, “The House Where the Architect Lives” includes the wit and humor of Yoshifumi Nakamura, a house pilgrim.
Before looking for the architect's home, the policy he had in mind was to 'find as many hidden masterpieces, masterpieces, and honorable mentions as possible' and 'not miss the real life of the architect and his family living in their true form in the home he designed.'
Through his travelogue, which faithfully follows this policy, we are guided through the real life of an architect.