From Blocks of Wood Come Miniature Houses

From Blocks of Wood Come Miniature Houses

In 2013 Yukihiro Akama found some small blocks of oak behind the house in northern England where his family was living at the time. Trained as an architect in his native Japan, he began carving miniature houses, a subject that has since become his signature. “I have only designed buildings in the past, so that’s why I’m making these houses,” Mr. Akama, 50, said during a video interview from the Daniel Baker furniture and cabinetry company in She…