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Research and general acceptance
The Beverly Hills diet is a diet created by Judy Mazel. She believes that weight loss can be achieved by eating foods in the proper combinations and in the correct order.
Judy Mazel says that she was always an overweight child, and beginning when she was nine years old, she went to see doctor after doctor trying to find out why she could not be thin. For 20 years she continued to struggle with her weight and was finally told by a doctor that she was destined to always be fat. Six months after this pronouncement, she went skiing and broke her leg. While she was recuperating, she read a book on nutrition that a friend had given her. From this she developed her ideas about how the body works and what is needed to lose weight and stay thin.
Mazel reports that she used her new theories to lose 72 lb (29 kg), and has kept off the weight ever since. In 1981, she published her diet in a book The Beverley Hills Diet. The original book reportedly sold more than a million copies, and in 1996 Mazel published a revised and updated version of the diet called The New Beverly Hills Diet. Mazel has also written a cookbook designed to go with the diet and The New Beverly Hills Diet Skinny Little Companion, a slim volume designed to provide inspiration and tips to help dieters through their first 35 days on the diet.
The Beverly Hills diet is a food combination diet. It is based on the idea that it is not what a person eats, or even how much food is eaten that causes a person to gain weight. Mazel believes the combinations in which foods are eaten and the order in which they are eaten causes weight gain. She says that eating foods in the wrong order can stop some foods from being digested, and it is the undigested foods that cause fat build-up.
The groups into which Mazel divides foods are carbohydrates, proteins, fruits, and fats. She believes that fruit must be eaten alone and must be eaten before anything else is consumed during the day. She also says that for correct digestion, each type of fruit must be eaten alone. This means that if a dieter eats an orange, the dieter must wait at least one full hour before eating another type of fruit, such as a pear. If the dieter eats a different type of food, such as a protein, the dieter must wait until the next day to eat fruit again.
On the Beverly Hills diet, protein and carbohydrates cannot be eaten together. Most dairy products go into the protein group for purposes of categorization. This means that dieters can drink milk with protein meals, but not with carbohydrate meals. Fat is allowed to be eaten with either group, but may not be eaten with fruit
The order throughout the day in which food is eaten is very important on the Beverly Hills diet. Mazel says that each day fruit should be eaten first. After fruit, the carbohydrate group can be eaten. After carbohydrates comes food from the protein group. Once a dieter has changed food groups, he or she cannot eat from the previous groups again until the next day. Dieters must wait two hours between eating foods from different food groups.
During the diet, Mazel says that dieters must not consume diet sodas or anything with artificial sweeteners. Because milk is considered a protein, the dieter is very limited in when it can be consumed. Unlike many other diets, alcohol is not as restricted on the Beverly Hills diet. Mazel categorizes most alcoholic drinks, such as beer, vodka, and rum, as carbohydrates, and says they must only be consumed with carbohydrates. Wine is categorized as a fruit, and unlike the rules for eating other fruits, wine does not have to be consumed alone but can be drunk with another fruit. Mazel says that champagne is a neutral food and can be drunk with anything.
For example, on the first day of the diet, dieters are instructed to eat pineapple, corn on the cob, and a salad made of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions with Mazel dressing. (Mazel dressing is a recipe included in the book, and shows up frequently throughout the 35-day diet.) This means that dieters may eat as much pineapple as desired in the morning, but once they beginning eating corn on the cob they cannot go back and eat more pineapple. Once the salad is eaten, both corn on the cob and pineapple are no longer allowed. Dieters are instructed to wait between changing foods to ensure proper digestion.
Some days on the diet only one type of food is permitted during the entire day. Day three of the diet allows the dieter only to consume grapes. On other days the dieter is only allowed to eat watermelon. Although these rules are extremely restrictive, they are not as restrictive as the rules set out in the original Beverly Hills diet. On that diet, dieters were only allowed to eat fruit for the first 10 days of the diet. No animal protein was allowed at all until the 19th day. The New Beverly Hills diet includes vegetables and carbohydrates occasionally during the first week, and includes lamb chops and shrimp on the sixth day.
The Beverly Hills diet promises dieters that they will lose up to 25 lb (11.5 kg) in 35 days. The diet's Website claims that the average dieter will lose 15–20 lb (7–9 kg). Mazel promises that by following the guidelines set out by her diet, dieters will be able to eat anything they want, including foods forbidden on most diets, such as cheesecake and hamburgers. They only have to ensure that they eat them at the right times, in the right combinations, and in the right order. Doing this, Mazel claims, will let dieters become thin and stay thin, all while eating fatty foods forbidden by other diets. The Beverly Hills diet is intended to be a life changing diet, and dieters are expected to continue to follow the rules of the diet after the 35 days of meal plans are finished. Mazel does not provide exercise recommendations, nor does she provide information to help dieters improve other aspects of their lives, such as advice on stress reduction.
The Beverly Hills diet claims that dieters can lose 20 lb (9 kg) in 35 days. Many health benefits are associated with significant weight loss if it is achieved through healthy eating and exercise and occurs at a moderate pace. These benefits can include a decreased risk of Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other obesity related diseases and conditions.
There may be some benefits to following the Beverly Hills diet. The diet emphasizes eating a wide variety of fruit. Fruits contain many vitamins and minerals that are necessary for good health. Eating a diet with more fruits and vegetables can help dieters stick to an otherwise well-balanced, reduced-calorie diet because fruits and vegetables generally contain fewer calories per volume than other foods. This means that a dieter can feel full while eating fewer calories. The diet also restricts prepared foods and foods with artificial preservatives, sweeteners, and flavors. Eating a diet that contains mainly fresh foods can be very healthy because prepared foods are often very high in sodium and have fewer vitamins and minerals than fresh foods.
The New Beverly Hills diet's website cautions dieters that there are some people for whom the diet is not appropriate. These include women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and anyone with diabetes, ulcers, spastic colon, and various forms of irritable bowel disease. The website also cautions that anyone with serious illness or chronic disease should only begin this diet under medical supervision.
Even dieters who do not have serious illness should consult a doctor or other medical professional when considering this diet. Daily requirements of calories, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients can differ from person to person depending on age, weight, sex, activity level, and the presence of certain diseases or conditions. A physician can help the dieter determine if this diet will be safe given a dieter's specific nutritional requirements, so that the dieter can reach his or her weight loss goals without risking good health.
This diet requires that dieters eat only a small variety of foods each day, and on some days only one type of food is allowed. No protein is allowed until the sixth day of the diet, and it is not included regularly after that. This means that it will be extremely hard for dieters to get the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that are needed each day for good health. If dieters are considering this diet, they should consult a physician about taking a multivitamin or other dietary supplement to reduce the risk of serious nutritional deficiencies. However, no vitamin or supplement can replace eating a healthy, balanced diet.
Although the New Beverly Hills diet does include more foods than the original diet, which only allowed fruit for the first 10 days, the diet still contains a significant amount of fruit. Fruit is required as the first food each day, and on many days only fruit is allowed. In the first week of the diet there are two days that only allow fruit: day three only allows grapes, and day five allows pineapple, then papaya, then more pineapple. Because of this excessive consumption of fruit and the limited consumption of other foods, there is a significant risk of diarrhea, which can lead to severe dehydration and malnutrition. Dieters thinking of beginning this diet should be extremely cautious.
Research and general acceptance
There have been no significant scholarly studies done showing the effectiveness of the food combining theory of eating in general, or the effectiveness of this diet in particular.
In 1981 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article stressing the dangers of the original Beverly Hills diet. It called the diet "the latest, and perhaps worst, entry in the diet-fad derby," and said that the diet could cause severe enough diarrhea to cause fever, muscle weakness, and in the most severe cases might be able to cause extreme drops in blood pressure that could lead to death. The article told physicians to discourage their patients from trying this diet.
Although the New Beverly Hills diet has been updated, and more foods have been included, experts are not much more enthusiastic. David W. Grotto, a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association, is quoted on WebMD.com as saying that "sustaining the diet...would be a concern because of a lack of nutritional adequacy," and even went on to say "I would almost lump [the] dietary program in with the obscure and useless programs—like Alexander the Great's nothing-but-alcohol diet. It's nutritionally incomplete and there's better programs out there.".
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced today a new interagency electronic filing system that will allow faster and easier submission and public retrieval of beneficial ownership reports filed by directors, officers, and principal shareholders of institutions (insiders) whose equity securities are registered with the FDIC, the FRB, and the OCC.
The new electronic system, available on July 30, is an important step in the agencies' ongoing efforts to streamline the filing and retrieval of reports filed with the agencies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. It will also reduce burden on insiders who must file these reports within two business days of completing a transaction in equity securities of the institution.
Although filing under the new system will be voluntary initially, the agencies encourage the use of the electronic filing system as soon as practicable once it becomes available. The agencies will issue additional guidance making electronic filing of beneficial ownership reports mandatory, as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Attachment: FIL-60-2003: Federal Banking Agencies Announce New Interagency Electronic Filing System for Beneficial Ownership Reports
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Took the day off work and kited Jones today and had a total blast. I was well powered on my 11M. Only one other kiter and me up by the flatwater channels, and we both were enjoying ourselves (dude was a great kiter, should have gotten his name). I haven't been to Jones as much as I would have liked this summer, but I'm always so glad when I make the trip - never been skunked and I ride my 8 or 11. Only bummer is that I guess I didn't turn my GoPro on - was hoping to see the footage of me body-dragging across the grass when I ate it in one of the channels.
Side note - is everyone just using Facebook? I'm not on FB, so I'm hoping people post more here. I'll try to do the same but given my few sessions due to having a small child at home, I don't get out much.


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76ers' skid reaches 25 games
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Brett Brown and the young Philadelphia 76ers are closing in on some dubious NBA history.
Austin Daye had 22 points, Tim Duncan added 19 and the San Antonio Spurs earned their 14th straight win with a 113-91 victory Monday night that sent the 76ers to their 25th consecutive loss.
Philadelphia will face Houston on Thursday with the distinction of being a loss shy of tying the NBA single-season record for consecutive losses set by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010-11.
Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said he felt terrible for Brown, now the 76ers' coach.
But he added that he did not feel sorry for "one of my best friends," because pity would upset his former assistant.
"Obviously, it's a rough season for them," Duncan said. "It's a rebuilding season for them. (Brown) knows that, they know that.
"They have a lot of young guys. He's just trying to get the system in place that has them playing the way he wants them playing. It's a process. He knows that."
Philadelphia (15-56) hired Brown hoping he could replicate some of the structure that has made San Antonio so successful. The 76ers saw firsthand how far they have to go.
The Spurs had nine players score at least five points and had 31 assists while shooting 44 for 79 from the field.
"It's tough," Philadelphia point guard Michael Carter-Williams said. "They move the ball really well with the extra pass. They try to move the ball and almost tire you out on defense. You got to be able to rotate and play throughout the shot clock."
Kawhi Leonard and Patty Mills scored 15 points each and Cory Joseph added 12 for San Antonio, which maintained the league's best record at 54-16.
The Spurs did not play starters Tony Parker, Tiago Splitter and Danny Green, but did not need them against the lowly 76ers.
Philadelphia only had seven players score, and six of those were in double figures. The 76ers finished with just 22 assists while shooting 41 percent from the field.
Carter-Williams and Thaddeus Young each scored 19 points, Byron Mullens added 15 and Elliot Williams had 14 for Philadelphia.
"It felt like they were running 100 miles per hour out there," Young said.
"You take one thing and they pick you apart with something else. You just have to pick your poison with a team like this. They have so many guys who can do different things and so many guys that can make plays."
How effective the Spurs' system can be was evident by who led the team in scoring, Brown said.
Daye, who was averaging 2.3 minutes while playing in only four games since being acquired from Toronto on Feb. 20, finished 6 for 10 on 3-pointers and had six rebounds in 29 minutes.
It was familiar to Brown, who served as an assistant under Popovich for seven seasons.
"He's lucky," Brown said, "and I've seen this over so many years — people can come into that system and shine. This system creates opportunities for everybody, and he took advantage of those. The attention you have to give others and the movement that they have in their structure allowed him to get freed up a lot.
"He reaped the benefit of playing in that system."
The Sixers kept pace early against the Spurs, with Carter-Williams fearlessly driving into the paint for a series of short jumpers and Hollis Thompson hitting a pair of 3s.
Popovich called timeout with 3:44 left in the first quarter after Williams dunked over Duncan to tie it at 19.
Philadelphia's early success awoke the Spurs and brought out the best in Daye. His athleticism and energy were just what San Antonio needed after a listless start.
"He's a skilled guy," Popovich said. "Obviously he can shoot it. But he's also a good passer. He knows how to play the game. It was good to be able to get him some time tonight."
San Antonio went on a 26-5 spurt bridging the first and second quarters, capped by a 19-0 run.
Daye first ran down Carter-Williams, swatting his layup attempt from behind, leading to Leonard's driving layup for a 23-19 lead with 3 minutes left in the opening quarter.
Mullens' 3-pointer snapped a 6½-minute drought, but the Spurs were up 45-27 with 6:35 left in the first half.
Daye then stole an outlet pass on the run, driving directly at a backpedalling Mullens on a 3-on-1 break. Daye faked a behind-the-back pass to Duncan on the left and dished to Joseph on the right, who fed an open Duncan for a layup and a 47-27 lead.
"In my opinion, that's how you play the game," Brown said. "So what you see is a system born out of many, many years of corporate knowledge where the winks and the blinks and the wrinkles and subtle nuances (allow them to) understand each other's tendencies, and the offense shines.
"It's not just a byproduct of good players or a great coach. It's a decade worth of corporate knowledge. That's what you aspire to get to."
The lopsided victory did little to satiate the Spurs or Popovich, who are hoping to return to the NBA Finals after falling to Miami last season in a seven-game series.
"We're playing well through this stretch and winning some games," Duncan said. "Pop is still not satisfied, obviously, with what we're doing. We want to stay healthy. We want to stay moving in the right direction.
"Hopefully we can ride this into the playoffs and feel good going into the playoffs."
It's a bigger-picture mentality Brown has already instilled in the 76ers, if they are looking at it from a completely different perspective given their run of futility.
"I'm not really worried about the streak and what people talk about it," Carter-Williams said. "We're just worried about getting better each and every day. Of course we want to go out there and win a ball game. But we just have to keep getting better and hopefully a win will come."
NOTES: San Antonio's Big Three of Duncan, Ginobili and Parker have played for 39 seasons, which is seven years more experience than the entire Philadelphia roster combined. The 76ers have six rookies on this year's roster. ... Former Spurs F Malik Rose, a Philadelphia native, now serves as an analyst for 76ers television. He filled in for the Spurs in the same capacity before joining Philadelphia's broadcast team.


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- Just one button to record.
- Stores 4 hours of audio.
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- Easy
Here are some ideas of ways that I used it in my classroom:
- As tattling seemed to be getting out of control in my classroom, I set one day aside and told the children to record their tattles into the microphone. Then, I strung all of their tattles together, turned the volume way up and listened. It was very powerful, because they got to hear what I hear all day long and realized how silly some of it really was. We also discussed how some of them were reports and reviewed tattles vs. reports.
- I had the children interview each other about their kindergarten year and put their sweet answers and voices into our end of year slideshow (priceless!).
- I had my apprehensive readers retell familiar stories into the microphone (like fairytales, Pete the Cat, etc.).
- I had my higher readers practice fluency by reading their familiar reads into the microphone. It is really powerful for them to hear the difference between reading like talking vs. reading like a robot.
- Students can read the room while recording
- Students can also read their writing into the microphone.
- Have students record themselves reading the list of sight words and have another student listen to see if they got them all right. Time how fast they did it.
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The other day on another blog, someone mentioned making chicken patties. There were some questions about the recipe, so I went and took a look. It sounded great and I thought, I should make that. But when I went to make it, remembered it called for ground, cooked chicken and thought, eh, too much work. I prefer a chicken breast cutlet with a crisp, spicy crust, anyway. So I decided to play with ingredients to come up with something that made me feel guilty eating it. All spicy and crispy. This what I came up with:
Crispy Chicken Breast Sandwiches
- 4 large boneless-skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup dill pickle juice
- 1 egg (if you're going to bake, add 1 tbsp of olive oil to egg)
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup panko
- 1 cup Italian bread crumbs
- Olive oil
Spice Mix
- 1 tsp of salt
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp dried marjoram
- 2 tsp dried sage
- 2 tsp dry basil
- 2 tsp of celery seeds
- 1 tsp of black pepper
- 1/2 to 1 tsp cayenne powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp of paprika
Sandwich Fixin's
- 8 crusty sesame sandwich rolls
- Mayonnaise
- Tomato slices
- Lettuce
- Dill pickle (or for extra spice, jalapenos – my choice)
Fillet breasts to make two thin fillets from each breast and then soak in pickle juice for 30 minutes. Transfer chicken to buttermilk and let marinate for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, mix together panko, bread crumbs and spice mix. Beat egg.
Remove chicken from buttermilk mixture, dip in egg and then dredge in breadcrumb mixture, coating well. Fry in skillet with 1-2 tbsp of oil, turning until golden brown on both sides. Or alternately, bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes. (I covered it for the first 10-15 minutes to keep it moist, then uncovered to get it crispy).
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Hideyuki Nakayama, O-House/Empty House, 2011
The House Detective
Small is new. And the interest in small houses is global. Small is serious. The causes are economic, ecological, and in some places the need to skirt onerous building codes.
Locally, garages turned into studios or storage units and the proliferation of out-buildings can be noted in suburbia and even in the outer boroughs of New York City. It is not that we need less space, but that we are hungry for more: a tool shed, a storage unit, a guesthouse, a man cave, an office, a studio. We are insatiable. For the post-urban, the glamorous need for a retreat and the righteousness of off-grid living are easily combined. Hippie meets hipster meets anchorite.
I am not immune. My favorite Tumblr blog is not
We are talking about cocooning, playing house, nesting.
My interest in new Japanese residential architecture fits in where small houses now rule. We have no room for anything else. Or so the fantasy goes. And let's face it, 99% of architecture is fantasy, hence cabinporn.com. But there is no fantasy behind the housing needs of reubanization.
Suppose Design, House in Fuchu, 2011. Footprint 629 sq. ft.
What Is A House?
For some time now I have been posting Facebook entries, under the heading ARTOPIATECTURE, consisting of a few words, an image, and then a link to my source, where texts (such as they are) and more pictures are available. Many of these posts have been part of my complex sampling of new Japanese residential architecture. Subsets are huts, pods, small retreats, sheds, tree houses, trailers, houseboats, out buildings, backyard offices and studios.
How did this come about? Knowing of my interest in design – in my second stint at the Village Voice I had covered craft and design -- my designer friend Tricia Foley recommended some webzines she tracks. The stand-outs were remodelista.com, design-boom.com, and dezeen.com. Soon I added designmilk.com. Then inhabit.com.
I was hooked. I became a house detective. And furthermore Facebook friends seemed to take to what I was discovering. I was not only tapping into a trend but into the cyber unconscious
A house is not just a shelter against the elements or against the neighbors. Certainly not an investment anymore. To dream of a house means many things. The house is your body. The house is a mask, a sign, an advertisement. The house is the womb. Or the inside of your head. An unusually small house suggests a hut or retreat. If it is too cute it will suggest a doll's house. The awful term T-ny H--se is a hand servant to twee. If the house is too small and poorly designed in terms of cubic rather than linear space and lacks proper fenestration, it will conjure up a coffin or a tomb. And, if you can bear the paradox, think upon, "In my Father's house, there are many mansions."
You should also know that during my design period as a critic I wrote the first feature length article on the Miami Beach Art Deco District (in Art in America, 1981) and that I curated an exhibition called Streamline Design: How the Future Was in 1984 at the Queens Museum, located in one of the few remaining buildings of the 1939-40 N.Y. World's Fair. Both were critiques of modernism, as then codified.
You should also know we live in a 650 square foot apartment in Manhattan and I am dreaming of a backyard studio out on Long Island. Our Florida Room, a closed-in car-port, has never been adequate for my paintings. Summers I paint outdoors like Jackson Pollock did further east.
But I am intrigued by larger issues.
SmalI is not only beautiful, it is mandatory, particularly in America where persons on average have three times as much living space as anywhere else, where five-bedroom houses sit largely empty in gated communities, but where --- like the rest of the world --- most people would rather live in cities. And populations keep growing and aging. Where are the granny houses of yesteryear? Why are today's youth deserting suburbia? What will urban living look like in the future?
NYC's Mayor Bloomberg recently initiated a RFP for an apartment house that must have 75%, 300 sq. ft. micro-units, temporarily suspending the building code, which was designed to be anti-tenement and anti-SRO. San Francisco is toying with units even smaller, from 290 to 150. Both projects are geared to providing sorely needed affordable housing where it is most needed --- downtown where the lights are.
Apollo Architects: Grow, 2012. 700 sq.ft. plot.
Why Japanese Houses?
Well, all of the above, plus Japanese Neo-Modern houses force reconsidering what a house is. Even looking at pictures of them changes your body. Could you live in a house with a 300 sq. ft. footprint? Would your body image shrink or would you grow to fill those atriums?
Click here for my Pinterest board of 125 new Japanese houses.
The publication of Cathelijne Nuijsink's How To Build a Japanese House, NAi, Rotterdam (2012), is the occasion for this essay. It is available at amazon.com.
Of the 23 architects interviewed, you might know Kazuyo Seijima and Ryue Nishizawa, the architects of the New Museum on the Bowery in Manhattan. What happened? Was the New York context too taxing for them? Or was it just that small house achievements do not necessarily mean big building success. The New Museum has some of the worst exhibition spaces I have ever seen and is totally claustrophobic. The proportions are all off. It is indeed a narrow site: 71 x 112 feet. But the headroom afforded by high ceilings only works on the 4thfloor. Difficult sites are what the new Japanese architects are supposed to be good at.
On the other hand, not too far away on the Bowery, Norman Foster's much narrower 25 X 100 foot building for the Sperone, Westwater Gallery uses headroom (27 foot-high first floor with a mezzanine above) perfectly. Is it the gigantic elevator? In itself it can be used as a moving gallery space. Or is it the impeccable attention to details?
If someone will stake me, I will gladly go to Japan and check out the alluring "pet architecture" and the photogenic neo-modernism now proliferating. I think I am fairly good at reading photographs, computer drawings, and floor plans (with some videos thrown in). But you never know. As we say in Artopia: Photography is the mother of all lies.
How many architecture surveys are given by those who have never been to Rome, or Athens or stood beside the Great Pyramids of Giza? How many professors have praised Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim Museum without ever looking at an exhibition there?
|Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim
Looks Like Art, Smells Like Art.
If you line up all the Japanese Neo-Modern houses since 1995 (?) they would show rapid, nonutilitarian, stylistic changes and are therefore art. I refer to art-historian George Kubler's definition in his The Shape of Time (1962), a touchstone of the '60s and '70s.
New Japanese houses are given titles, e.g. M House, K House but also Living Through House, Ant House, Skate-Park House, Mineral House, Sunken House, Sway House, 3-Way House with Rock Climbing, Rosie, Roadscape House, Sway House, House Towards the Cherry Tree, A Life With Large Opening, Rainy/Sunny House and Empty House, the extremely narrow house on the cover of Nuijsink's book..
The center of Hidyuki Nagayama's O-House or Empty House (see above) is a kind of visual pass-through, with the practical parts pushed off to the sides. The two-story drape is used for drama, privacy, and/or signaling people are at home inside, somewhere, if not always visible. In itself this enormous length of cloth may be a reference to Shigeru Ban's Curtain Wall House in ancient times (i.e. 1995).
Furthermore, some of the architectural firms have names that sound more like rock bands or political collectives than businesses, i.e., Three Ball Cascade, Alphaville, Bow Wow Atelier, I.R.A. Suppose Design, LEVEL Architects, or Shigeru Fuse. Uh-oh, must be art!
So I did not wonder if these small houses were art, but why Pet Architecture existed at all. This is the term used by Ryuji Nakamura (b.1972) of Atelier Bow-Wow to mean "new buildings squeezed into leftover urban spaces."
There are other small neo-modern houses being built in Europe, the Americas, Australia. But none are as weird and challenging as those being built in Japan. Some of this strangeness effect (another sign of art) is because of local conditions:
1. The Economic Bubble
The Japanese economic bubble burst in 1991. Japan has never been the same. Japanese architects are forced to design small houses because few other commissions are available. The good side of this is that the houses are built quickly and there is more room for experiment. In fact, competition makes sure of that.
"Architects were unlucky and unable to obtain bigger projects anymore," says Taro Igarashi, in a "monologue" in Nuijsink's book (pg.141). "Young architects nowadays have to continue their career designing houses. that is why this generation considers interior design, installations, and renovations as real architecture projects. But the advantage of small commissions is that they can innovate a lot..."
2. Strange Plots
Japanese inheritance laws guarantee that plots keep getting divided into smaller and smaller parcels. Of 1.8 million real estate parcels in Tokyo 1.7 are occupied by single-family houses. Furthermore, if you Google Map Tokyo, you will see that there is no grid. Most lots are not rectangles but irregular triangles, polygons, or "flagpole sites." Japanese prefab houses are not easily adapted to these sites, cannot use ubiquitous alleys as light wells, cannot borrow views, cannot stand out. And cannot irritate or engage the neighbors. Hence the market for houses designed by architects.
3. Short-Term Housing
The average lifespan of a Japanese house is 30 years. Therefore clients are not hamstrung by conformist projections of market conditions down the road. In the U.S., two-car garages, heated driveways, in-ground swimming pools, marble kitchen-counters, two bathrooms and other dubious necessities, supposedly will guarantee re-sale when your house goes underwater, you jump ship, or you want to upgrade. In Japan it is more the land that is purchased than the house. New owners will likely build another house tailored to their own needs.
And there is a cultural leaning to the ephemeral. Japanese temples are not built to last for centuries, but are periodically rebuilt, which is exactly how they become eternal.
4. Hobby Housing
Architected houses, even in Japan, are for the elite who usually have individualized demands. Sound-proof rooms for music practice; hobby-spaces. I have come across Super Car House, for an automobile collector (which features a special display space or a collectible auto in the living room; Skate Park House for a skate-board enthusiast; and Rock-Climbing House with a practice wall for its rock-climbing couple.
Instead of family-centered houses, the demand is for couple or individual-centered ones. Extra space is more for hobbies than for children.Children grow up and move away to other living units, whereas hobbies stay.
Be-Fun Design, Outdoors Indoors, 2011. (House for rock-climber.)
Japanese clients are explicit:
I want a house with a built-in, off-street garage for my orange Miata on the isosceles-triangle plot inherited from my father-in-law when his land was split four ways; an all-white house, inside of which I can practice mountain climbing, my wife can weave, and my daughter practice her cello in a sound-proof studio. A sauna. And, oh, yes, a view of the cherry tree across the street and upstairs a skylight so I can see the skyscrapers above and on a clear day Mount Fuji. In six months please.
5. The Culture of the Anti-Monumental
Monumental buildings are not within the Japanese purview. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was originally a villa, and not a large one at that. Even if you add the landscaping --- which you should --- the scale of this cultural icon is modest and decidedly unmonumental. Mansions are considered vulgar.
Although bereft of furniture in the Japanese tradition (or because of the siren-call of the photogenic), these new houses often have amazingly complex interiors. They look small from the outside, but like the TARDIS Police Box of Dr. Who they are much bigger inside. Skylights, glass walls, exposed staircases, high ceilings, mini-atriums, and windows that glean "stolen scenery" open up the modest interiors. Built-ins leave more room for getting around.
When looking at online picture albums of new Japanese house, it always comes as a shock when you see a briefcase, a shoe, or even a toy, never mind a painting. We know that clutter is not unknown in Japan. See photos of the way some Japanese really live in Kyoichi Tsuzuki's Tokyo: A Certain Style, Kyoto Shoin, 1997, in which color photographs of apartment clutter seem to illustrate the dictim of anarchist Sakae Osugi (1885-1923) that proclaims "Beauty is to be found in disarray."
Nevertheless, the new architects count on the Japanese anti-clutter ethos. In traditional houses, there are mats rather than chairs and sofas and tables and beds. Stuff --- and flesh is always heir to stuff – is stored away when not in use. Anti-clutter is Japanese.
Japan is on the cutting edge of urban, small-scale housing. Japan can't afford to be anything else but extreme. Of course, housing everywhere is shrinking. Both the young and the elderly want to live in cities where there's entertainment, education, conviviality, art, proper healthcare, and mates on parade. There is currently not enough affordable housing for young people or for the retired. New living quarters can be smaller because take-out is the norm.
Note here the experiments in San Francisco and New York towards allowing smaller living units in order to attract the necessary workers and consumers. We are entering the era of the home base or the base camp as opposed to the home. The 7.5 x 12 x 7 salaryman capsules of the Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) were ahead of their time. Ironically the Capsule Tower is now threatened and may be demolished.
Sound pollution is less and less of a problem no matter what the traffic decibel level or the infant proximity; everyone wears earphones and can choose a personalized sound environment or just go the route of sound-blocker earphones or foam earplugs.
7. The Dorm Is the Norm
The base camp has the stamp of approval. This is not at all strange to me. Our base-camp is a 650 sq. ft. tenement apartment in the East Village. The bathtub is in the kitchen. Renovated apartments of the same heritage now go for at least $2,500 a month. The East Village is now the campus that N.Y.U. prides itself in not having. Our neighbors are no longer Ukrainians or junkies, but graduate students who rotate annually or per semester. None of them entertain at home (which is a blessing); they meet their friends, if they have any, in coffee bars. None of them cook: no burnt offerings to the culinary gods. Generous stipends from mom and dad or trust funds allow them to rely on cutting edge take-out food. This means we have some of the best and priciest take-out in N.Y.C. --- Luke's lobster rolls, Belgian French fries, porchetta sandwiches. A splendid raw food venue. And Korean, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Vietnamese offerings, along with the usual Italian.
In Japan, curiously enough, Kisho Kurokawa's Capsule Tower (1972) is now in disrepair. This Metabolist masterpiece features 7.5 x 12 x 7 cubicles – meant as pied-à-terres for commuting salarymen -- with built in kitchens, bathrooms, and furniture and one giant porthole in each. The plug-in pods were designed to be replaceable, so they can easily be updated . I hope
Skeda Yushie Architects: Shakujii-Y House, 2011. For astronomy enthusiast.
How Japanese Is It?
Because of global realities the new Japanese residential architecture is congruent with developments elsewhere. I say this with some misgivings because surely my attraction to these new houses is their strangeness. I have been to Japan four times and each time, once I had slipped beneath or fell through the global-familiar, it seemed like another planet. There are Hondas, Toyotas, buses, subways, department stores and McDonald's. IKEA rules. But then you turn a corner and you don't know where you are or which end is up. A symbol of this alienation-effect for me has always been the fact that street addresses are not consecutive but numbered by when each house was built.
The 23 interviews in How to Make A Japanese House are also uncanny and inspiring. I will leave you with these samples:
I believe what is important is the relationship between things. When you are interested in light, you also have to consider darkness. When you want a space to look bigger, you will have to incorporate narrow spaces. Making a certain atmosphere or environment doesn't mean you can only focus on one kind of spaces. It is important to include the environment right next to your design as well. Even when you are designing a cup, for examples, you will have to consider the atmosphere in and around the cup. The first thing I do when starting to design a new building is to consider the surroundings.
Makoto Tanijiri [Suppose Design]
One of the most shocking things in Japan today is that single elderly people die alone in their houses and are not discovered for months....
Yoshiharu Tskukamoto, speaking against "introverted housing".
Art is something on the border of two things.
Ryuji Nakamura, quoting his teacher Koji Rokakku.
I make a distinction between a nest and a cave. For me, a nest it a functional space, assembled for a certain purpose. A cave, however, is something that's already there: an existing space people can find a use for. The cave-like space is richer and has more possibilities for use. ....Once people live in it, the cave will gradually become a nest.
Sou Fujimoto
I am more interested in stories than in shapes. The stories are not narratives, just small relationships....I draw a line on a piece of paper. with the line the paper is divided into two spaces. when you look at the paper now, you can discover a perspective. But what is the meaning of this line? If I draw a chair next to the line, the line starts to look like a floor mat. If I draw the shadow lines of the chair, the line starts to look like the divider between a floor and a curved vertical wall....
In our office, an imperfect way of communication is very important. For example, my sketches and perspective of my architectural ideas are deliberately ambiguous. I pass them on to my staff and they have to detect a shape....Just by the placement of the furniture, there are many ways of reading my drawings....This is our way of making a shape out of stories and lines.......
Hideyuki Nakayama [Empty House]
And now for something completely different.
I am inspired to think that the gist of How To Build A Japanese House (my new touchstone) can be communicated by the titles given to the interviews:
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