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

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林间住宅 / architectureRED

11.05

印度的城市住宅正处于快速城市化与身份认同转变的十字路口。土地稀缺的压力和市场驱动的开发模式已将住宅商品化，往往为了追求最大化收益而牺牲了“家”的核心定义。在此过程中，住宅作为培养身份认同、社区意识和归属感空间的最本质特征，正在日益流失。单元房的无情堆叠、开放空间的消失以及城市环境的同质化，使得人们几乎没有空间去与自然或彼此进行有意义的互动。

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