Azby Brown is Director of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology’s Future Design Institute in Tokyo, and a volunteer at Safecast, an independent radiation monitoring group. He is the author of Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (2010), the Genius of Japanese Carpentry (1995), Small Spaces (1996), The Japanese Dream House (2001), and The Very Small Home (2005). He has been an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology since 1995.