The International House Image 1 Shin Takamatsu & Associates: Iwai House, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The architect created a typically Oriental atmosphere of serenity to take refuge from the chaos of Kyoto's outskirts. Image 2 Shin Takamatsu & Associates: Iwai House, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan. "The wall slowly attracts visitors inside together with its un-natural nature, as if they were entering the stomach of Moby Dick". (Shin Takamatsu) Image 3 Tom Maine, Morphosis: Blades Residence, Santa Barbara, USA. Image 4 Shinichi Ogawa & Associates: Glass House, Hiroshima, Japan. Image 5 Ernst Bender: House HUF, Blindenmarkt, Austria. View from courtyard.