BRUTUS June 15, 2025 No.1032 | Living Space Studies 2025

"Kyojukukangaku" (the study of living spaces), a feature visiting the appealing lives of residents with ideas of their own.
In 2025, under the theme "A Well-Ventilated Room", it presents living spaces nurtured by 14 residents and households in Japan and abroad.
A house built by a structural engineer to last 100 years, a new base for a furniture designer, an apartment complex that will one day return to the forest, and more.
Delivered together with pleasant greenery.
Feature
Kyojukukangaku 2025: A Well-Ventilated Room
A 100-year house built of steel becomes a green hill loved by the town.
Ryozo Umezawa, structural engineer
A house where wind and light pass through unchanged, even as residents and roles change.
Shin Ohori, head of GENERAL DESIGN
Inspiration is limitless; the things I want to do keep welling up.
Yoko Takahashi, photographer
Returning to simplicity, I want to make pared-down furniture.
Norihiko Kise, head of TRUCK and S.T,N.E.
Nurturing a site overlooking the sea with friends.
Shuichiro Sakaguchi, musician and producer
A room packed with devotion in every direction: furniture, crafts and music.
Kunihiko Hosoda, designer at HOUSETRAD
A ceramic artists' house with walls of fired clay and a timber-framed roof.
Nobuyuki Furutani, ceramic artist / Akari Furutani, ceramic artist
The Ebisu family home: a house in Fujino
Yasutomo Ebisu, photographer
Living on through generations: Hillside Hisasue
Practising a life made with the people and things that are there.
Visiting Hideki Toyoshima's house in Makkari.
Hideki Toyoshima, member of gm projects
Bridging old and new
Turning a modernist house in LA into a base for cultural exchange.
Takashi Yanai, architect
Converting a farm cowshed in the former East Germany into a home.
Robert Abts, artist
Weaving stories with old and new artworks in a 300-year-old house in Provence.
Muriel Gregoir, art director / Fréderic Vankeijmeulen, art director

Publisher: Magazine House
Publication year: June 2025
Pages: 120
Dimensions: 284 × 210 mm

BRUTUS / Japanese Interiors / Living Design