3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (848+ words) Completed in 1972 in Tokyo, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was one of the most radical experiments in modern housing. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa, the building embodied the ideas of the Metabolist movement, which imagined architecture as flexible and replaceable rather than…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (264+ words) Meer | English edition Temporary. Structures of necessity 5 Nov 2026 — 5 Apr 2027 at the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna, Austria The exhibition highlights structures that form an essential yet often overlooked part of our urban infrastructure. This temporary layer keeps countless processes in the…...

4+ week, 19+ hour ago   (409+ words) …you still have kept my soul, in my heart lay hidden. O'er three centuries I've not forgot you… (Wen Yiduo1, Chinese poet) The interlacing contrasts of language, food, architecture, and culture are omnipresent in the tiny peninsula of Macau, which has…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (967+ words) The artist in this social context must not be a simple artisan, but rather an intellectual prepared in all disciplines and all fields. The adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add, subtract, or change without impairing the…...