A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo

← Uchi Archive

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蘆田暢人建築設計事務所による、大阪・吹田市の「江坂ひととき」。高密度な都市の“超低密度”な民間の地域拠点。都市と里山の課題も解決する存在を求め、両者の“交流と循環”を促す建築を志向。森で伐採した“広葉樹の丸太”を構造材とし仕上材なども同地域の木材を使用して造る

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蘆田暢人建築設計事務所が設計した、大阪・吹田市の「江坂ひととき」です。高密度な都市の“超低密度”な

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