There's a particular kind of attention that serious potters bring to their working environment — the quality of light over a wheel, the rhythm of a space around a kiln, the way a studio either supports or fights against the act of making. At Tsukumo Kiln in Kobe, Japan, that attention has been codified into the architecture itself.
Tsukumo Kiln's Stunning Timber Studio Is Architecture as Craft Manifesto
A new ceramic studio in Kobe, Japan, wraps the ancient art of kiln-firing in a triangular timber structure sheathed in translucent FRP panels that shift with the light. This is what it looks like when architecture takes making seriously.
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