Metropolitan life implies an accelerated pace that excludes moments of contemplation and introspection. The ideal of the primitive hut, meanwhile, represents a primordial moment for architecture, where material and symbolic needs converge, the relationships between form and use intensify, and the distinctions between furniture and building blur.
Yoshifumi Nakamura is a Japanese architect who has dedicated fifty years of professional life to thinking about and conceiving small-scale spaces that seek to promote a state of contemplation.
