Section
Modern
Metabolism, concrete poetry and the postwar architects who rewrote the rules.
Church of the Light: How Tadao Ando Built with Shadow
A modest chapel in suburban Osaka turned a cross-shaped slit in a concrete wall into one of the most recognisable images in modern architecture.
After Nakagin: What Metabolism Still Teaches Us
Kisho Kurokawa's capsule tower was demolished in 2022. Its ideas about growth, change and replaceable parts are more relevant than ever.
From other sections
Ise Jingu: The Shrine That Is Rebuilt Every Twenty Years
For more than a thousand years, Japan's most sacred shrine has been dismantled and rebuilt in fresh cypress. What does it mean for a building to be both ancient and new?
Katsura Imperial Villa and the Art of the Sukiya Style
A seventeenth-century princely retreat in Kyoto that taught twentieth-century modernists a lesson about restraint.
Engawa: The Beauty of the Space In Between
Neither inside nor outside, the wooden veranda of the Japanese house is a lesson in thresholds.
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