Tsukumo Kiln's Stunning Timber Studio Is Architecture as Craft Manifesto

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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.

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.

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