Both the Chuorinkan House and the Koganei House are located on the outskirts of Tokyo and were designed around the same time. Although they differ structurally and visually, they represent one approach to the problems they involve. Both starting points are deliberate citations and reorganizations of architectural compositional elements that can be said to be representative of the early modern age. I have used the same type of design approach in other works. For example, inside PMT building no. 1 (JA, September 1978) there are quotations of motifs used by Le Corbusier and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The W project and the PMT building no. 2 involve the reorganization of elements of Le Corbusier's La Roche-Jeanneret house in Paris. And the facade of the PMT factory in Osaka references the facade of Le Corbusier's Villa Stein, in Garches. The purposes behind citation and rearrangement operations of this kind are (1) to produce the collage effect of heterogeneous elements and (2) to visualize surface elements. Although the Chuorinkan House resembles PMT Building No. 1 as its facade is made up of o...