Azby Brown was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the
author of
The Genius of Japanese Carpentry (1995),
Small Spaces
(1996),
The Japanese Dream House (2001), and
The Very Small Home
(2005). An associate professor of architectural design at the Kanazawa
Institute of Technology since 1995, he is currently in the Department of Media
Informatics. In 2003, he opened the Future Design Institute in Tokyo, of which
he is the director.
In
his new book,
Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional
Japan (Kodansha International, February 2010, $24.95), Brown points to
Edo Japan to show how we can live happy, fulfilled, and responsible lives today.