Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Dream houses

Often I find the house in the wood. The grains and the knots show me where to cut

Yukihiro Akama has always loved wood. As a child, living in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Honshu, Japan’s main island, he would walk in the pine and cedar woods with his father, foraging for mushrooms and berries. As a student of architecture

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