Uncrating the Japanese House

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<p><strong>Midcentury modernism meets Japanese design in three revolutionary American buildings¿the products of a unique, sustained, cross-cultural collaboration</strong></p><p>In 1953, Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura designed a now-classic Japanese house and garden that he called Shofuso. It was built in Nagoya, Japan, and shipped to New York in 1954, where it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and then relocated to Philadelphia¿s Fairmount Park. The curators of MoMA¿s <I>House in the Garden</I> exhibition highlighted its synthesis of historic Japanese architecture with modern architecture: the clarity of the house¿s post and beam structure, its flexibility of use and the close relationship of indoor and outdoor spaces.<br>This extensively illustrated volume centers on Yoshimura¿s design for Shofuso and two allied sites located in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Raymond Farm (1939¿41), a live-work residence built by Antonin and No¿ Raymond within the fabric of an exist