Azby Brown is a native of New Orleans, and has lived in Japan since 1985.
She is the author of Super Potato Design, Zen Gardens and Zen Garden Design ..
Mira Locher is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (Canada). with Takayuki Murakami.
After working for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan for seven years, she set up an architectural practice in the U.
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She studied at Smith College before receiving her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. and Japan.
Foreword writer Mira Locher is an architect and professor who works in the U.
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He retired in 2017 from the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where he founded the Future Design Institute, and is currently on the sculpture faculty of Musashino Art University in Tokyo.
In addition to The Genius of Japanese Carpentry , he has written Small Spaces (1993), The Japanese Dream House (2001), The Very Small Home (2005), and Just Enough: Lessons in living green from traditional Japan (2010).
A widely published author and authority on Japanese architecture, design, and environment, his groundbreaking writings on traditional Japanese carpentry, compact housing, and traditional sustainable practices of Japan are recognized as having brought these fields to the awareness of Western designers and the general public.
Azby Brown is a native of New Orleans, and has lived in Japan since 1985
