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Article: Japanese transition.(Interior Design)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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In a pleasant residential suburb of Melbourne, a new house for a Japanese family takes advantage of local circumstances while expressing the ideas of transition and confluence.
John Wardle's house for the Kitamura family is in Kew, an agreeably leafy suburb of Melbourne. The Kitamuras emigrated from Japan to Australia at the beginning of the '80s, and in commissioning a new house, they asked for a building that could accommodate habits born out of their own culture, but which have adapted to the experience of settling in Australia, and to this spacious rus in suburbes.
There was no attempt on the part of either the clients or the architect to import obvious ...
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