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the home. The house is a sign of stability in the society, yet with traditional house court and modern living room reflect, and guar-
an average 25-year lifespan, it is as tenuous a product as the anteed good building standards. The focus of architectural crit-
automobile or a laptop. Factory-made houses in Japan, like cars ics is the emergence of the few architect-designed homes with a
and electronics, are controlled, mass-produced manufactured utilitarian aesthetic for embracing bold forms and visually extend-
products and are more accepted than in North America and ing spaces with light. The F.O.B. Houses, developed and mar-
much of Europe. Stylistically, the home exteriors adapt trendy keted by a large household goods retail chain, the F.O.B. Co-op,
western elements, but with the exception of a few minimalistic are a case in point. They offer individual, affordable designs with
architect-designed prefab homes, there is little innovation in the contemporary exteriors by using consistent detailing and coop-
sea of indistinctive architecture. For most, the emphasis is rather erating with the same few building companies (34, 35).
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Um House, Ikoma
The Um House is one of five proto-
types of F.O.B. Houses developed on
principles of spatial continuity and
interior courtyards, both reminders of
the traditional Japanese house.
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