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Architecture in Tokyo — micro-houses on narrow residential lots, Kengo Kuma's public works, Sou Fujimoto's transparent volumes, and the quiet experiments of young studios working where density forces invention. The city where the smallest plot produces the most spatial ambition.
Density as invention — Tokyo's architecture of compression, light, and restraint.
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