2024-05-03T09:34:00-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/94824133/architects-utopia-might-be-japan Nam Henderson 2014-03-04T00:17:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xd/xdzde94io087p2qk.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Let's say you are an architect and what you really like to design is single family houses, with flair, with distinctive maybe even avant-garde features and you want to design houses that will actually get built. Well if that's who you are...than for you utopia might be Japan...</p></em><br /><br /><p></p><p>In a recent Freakonomics Radio podcast, &ldquo;Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?&rdquo; Greg Rosalsky examines the short lifespan of Japanese residential architecture.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>h/t <a href="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/03/the-home-of-home-wrecking/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andrew Sullivan /The Dish</a><br>&nbsp;</p>