Sixteen Japanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

British architectural photographer Marc Goodwin has gone behind the scenes to capture 16 architecture workspaces in Japan.

The project by Goodwin – who is the founder of photography studio Archmospheres – forms part of his latest photography series that documents architecture workspaces, most recently spanning Taiwan, Vienna and Munich.

Focusing on "young, non-traditional studios" in Japan, the latest series features workspaces of various scales and settings – ranging from spacious warehouses and offices to smaller-scale workshops and residences.

Among the studios featured are Kengo Kuma & Associates, Akihisa Hirata and Tato Architects.

Goodwin collaborated with architect Samuel Michaëlsson for the series, which complements Michaëlsson's existing collection of interviews with the same architects similarly featured in this photography series.

According to Goodwin, the studio spaces across Japan varied greatly from those featured in his previous series, with the studios and projects different from any that he has previously encountered.

"The atmosphere of these offices was a great surprise, in a good way," Goodwin told Dezeen.

"I was expecting a corporate but highly professional work environment," he added. "Instead what I got was an ever-surprising, and often transitional-feeling set of adapted spaces that defied truisms of the basic needs of an office."

"It often felt more like the continuation of design studios at architecture school rather than the office environment one often encounters when starting practice at a firm."

Read on for a look inside 16 architecture studios across Japan: