13.5.2008
Tropolism Books: Minka: My Farmhouse In Japan
Title: Minka: My Farmhouse In Japan
Author: John Roderick
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 978-1-56898-731-6
John Roderick leaves his metier of journalism (he was an Associated Press correspondent in Asia for almost forty years) and enters the much trickier realm of architectural memoir with Minka: My Farmhouse In Japan. It is his experiences as an American journalist in post-war Japan who purchases a minka, reconstructs it, and makes new home out of it.
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