Books: Documenting the genius of Japanese houses

Imagine living in a tiny tower of triangular rooms. Or in a concrete, cavelike dwelling burrowed into the ground. Or under a roof with a scalloped profile determined by the required distance from the utility lines above. Shocking to some, innovative to others, houses like these are all but inconceivable in most parts of the world. Yet homes with this conceptual clarity are realized regularly in Japan, and have been since World War II.