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One of Japan’s leading architecture journals. First published in August 1925. Since its inaugural issue Shinkenchiku – New Architecture – has been endorsed by innumerable architects for its detailed presentation of contemporary Japanese architecture with high quality photos, plans and drawings. Over time the journal has developed a unique perspective, constantly communicating new trends in architectural thought and design. The activities of architects have expanded in recent years to encompass urban development, the environment and a host of other fields. Architects are increasingly making contributions to society in the broad sense by exploring the possibilities of modernity through architectural expression. The journal will continue to carefully consider such developments and visually convey the potential of architecture with photos taken and published by our Photography Department.

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First published in January 1971, a+u – Architecture & Urbanism – is an architectural magazine in Japanese and English that provides information on architecture around the globe to a global readership. As Japan’s only monthly periodical dedicated to disseminating information on architecture around the world, a+u has been widely and actively read by the architecture community since its inaugural issue. The magazine’s research network extends around the globe, covering more than 100 countries. It features direct reporting on individual architects in various countries, and each issue is edited from a unique perspective to efficiently deliver the latest trends to readers. In addition, essays penned by architects, critics and historians help guide thinking on tomorrow’s architecture, greatly influencing the industry inside and outside Japan.

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a+u’s May issue highlights ways that architects have inserted spaces for play into the built environment – for the enjoyment of both children and adults. Play is rarely a priority in urban design, a matter highlighted by the photo essay Tracing Van Eyck, which notes that of the 700 playgrounds Aldo van Eyck designed for Amsterdam in the aftermath of World War II, fewer than 20 remain. Projects such as Nami Play Pavilion demonstrate how quick flexible solutions can enhance large-scale residential projects, while projects such as GiganteBlu activate urban heritage to foster lively new experiences. Variety in material is an important factor in the built environment, as evidenced by Pod for Happiness, which uses locally sourced material to create an embracing form that reflects the ongoing vitality of the local community, juxtaposed with Boulder Park, which uses 3D printing technology to experiment with organic morphology. Projects such as Rita Lee Park breathe new life into legacy projects that are at risk of falling into disrepair, while projects such as Color Pit are actions of urban repair. Spaces for play thus emerge as invitations for the imaginations of not only the children who will use them, but also for the designers and builders entrusted with their creation.

Tracing Van Eyck
studio dmau

GiganteBlu
expandstudio

Rocks on Wheels
Mike Hewson

School Models
Florian Graf

Essay:
Emergent Play
Sara Brunelle

Harvard Yard Childcare Center Play Study
G2 Collaborative

Nami Play Pavilion
Nami Nami Studio

Creatures
ertepl

Pod for Happiness
Craft Narrative

Boulder Park
XISUI Design

Playground Landscape
Hidalgo Nuñez Architects

Transformation of a Wastewater Treatment Plant into a Playground
En-Dehors

Color Pit
Etienne Bastormagi, Sandra Richani, Nada Borgi

Fresnillo Playground
Rozana Montiel, Alin V. Wallach

PILARES
Rozana Montiel Studio

Entrerrios Educational Park
Connatural

San Antonio School 1.0
ELE Architects

BLOX
Carve

A Room for Archaeologists and Kids in Pachacamacc
ETH Zürich + PUCP

Essay:
From the Forms of Playgrounds to the Understandings of Childhood, and vice versa
Vincent Romagny

That’s Not Fair!
studio dmau

Buranbanen Activity Park
Agraff Architects

Rita Lee Park
Ecomimesis

Bicentennial Children’s Park
ELEMENTAL

Parc dels Colors
EMBT Architects

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First published as a quarterly journal in May 1985. Published monthly starting in May 1986. Every issue of Jutakutokushu – Special Housing – introduces and interprets ten or more houses with beautiful photography and detailed plans. The houses are approached as vehicles for architectural insight, proposals for new ways of living and showcases for various techniques and technologies. From the start the journal has striven to meet the professional needs of residential designers and architects while also appealing to the interests of a broader readership. Jutakutokushu will continue to straightforwardly communicate the diverse values of the house as a class of architecture intimately linked to day-to-day living.

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a+u’s April issue features BAST (Bureau Architectures Sans Titre), based in Toulouse, France. Laurent Didier, Mathieu Le Ny, and Louis Léger have structured a worker-owned cooperative to pursue a research-based approach to architecture. Instead of asserting a singular vision across the board, they inform each project with site-specific decisions and structural logic. Engaging with modest programs, including the refurbishment projects M47 and E53, BAST carves out new spaces while preserving the integrity of the local vernacular building. New constructions, such as M37, present new methods to connect with the site. The 18 projects presented in this issue focus not only on the finished building, but also on the dynamism of the construction site, where constant calibrations take place between human, site, and material.

M48 Maison / House
M44 Maison / House
M32 Maison / House
E69 Équipement / Public Space

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Building Practice
Adrien Comte and Adrien Meuwly

A12 Appartement / Apartment
A13 Appartement / Apartment
E53 Équipement / Public Space
E56 Équipement / Public Space
L33 Logement / Collective Housing
L35 Logement / Collective Housing

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BAST and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal

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M38 Maison / House
M39 Maison / House
M43 Maison / House
M45 Maison / House
M47 Maison / House

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O04 / W04 – Teaching Experiences

T18 Tertiaire / Tertiary Space
T19 Tertiaire / Tertiary Space

Announcement: The 61st Central Glass International Architectural
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a+u’s February issue features award-winning American architect Thomas Phifer. As seen in the 10 houses and 12 cultural buildings examined here, Phifer’s work engages with the landscape in a manner that is deeply respectful, yet asserts its presence. Whether situated in a pastoral meadow or an urban setting, the buildings do not dominate their surroundings but strike a balance. This contextually sensitive dialogue between building and landscape extends beyond formal expression of the building to its environmental performance. In the operable sunshades in Taghkanic House, the thick concrete eaves overhanging the ephemeral walls of Hudson Valley House III, and the complexly multilayered canopy of Moody Amphitheater, the quiet contemplative quality of Phifer’s work emerges from a scientific understanding of site, climate, and light.

Essay:
The Poetics of Light: From Landscape to Space of Contemplation
Susana Ventura

Ghent House
Hudson Valley House III
Hudson Valley House II
Hudson Valley House I
Elizaville House
Madison House
Fishers Island House
Midwest House
Salt Point House
Taghkanic House

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Through the Lens of Glenstone
Thomas Phifer

Glenstone Museum
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
TR Warszawa Theater 108
National Archaeological Museum of Greece
Moody Amphitheater
Corning Museum of Glass
North Carolina Museum of Art
Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Rice University Brochstein Pavilion
Wagner Park Pavilion
United States Courthouse
Cine Colombia Headquarters

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a+u’s January issue features Vector Architects, founded by Gong Dong in 2008. From its earliest projects, the Beijing-based firm has prioritized the relationship of built work to its site, from ocean, to mountains, to the heart of the city, while investigating both natural and artificial landmarks for clues on how best to address the unique requirements of each program. While Gong Dong is no stranger to bold gestures, as evidenced by Seashore Chapel in Qinhuangdao, recent work, such as Jingyang Camphor Court in Jingdezhen, seems to retreat from view, knitting itself into the urban fabric until structure and surroundings become inseverable. While material continues to be critical to their capture and play of light, Vector Architects’ resolution to preserve nature, such as their decision to make 18-meter trees the nucleus of Liyuan Primary School in Shenzhen, attests to their ability to grasp the genius loci of their site. (a+u)

Manifesto:
Seeing into the Site
Gong Dong

Seashore Chapel
Seashore Library
Restaurant Y by the Sea

Essay:
Gong Dong and Vector Architects
Henry Plummer

Xiangshan Library
Mountaintop Theater
Tianye Art Museum
Cluster of Juxtaposed Courtyards – Xirang Hotel
Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring

Essay:
Lifelines in Plan and Perspective –
The Drawings, Paintings, and Buildings of Gong Dong
David Leatherbarrow

Jingyang Camphor Court
Revival of Ordinary Trees
Chapel of Music 86
Changjiang Art Museum

Essay:
News from the Sites
Dongyang Liu

Bishan Granary Art Center
Banyan Garden Community Art Center and Canteen
Liyuan Foreign Language Primary School
Steel Reed
Haibing Center of Nankai University
Haikou Cultural and Ecological Memorial Park
Shanghai Maritime Pavilion

Essay:
Vector Architects: Designing Intersections
Michele Bonino

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Feature: Experience
Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, Éric Lapierre
a+u’s December issue features the work of Paris-based architects Experience, headed by Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, and Éric Lapierre. In their words, theirs is “a cultural, typological approach” toward architecture in search of the “marvelous” – a pursuit captured in their unique method of precisely photographed, meticulously made models and remarkably drawn “music box” axonometric drawings. The firm’s meditations on architectural form are so rational that they loop into the surreal, a paradox apparent in the 19 works presented in this issue. On the one hand, in House for a Collector, the hierarchy of built walls is challenged by movable furniture to define space. On the other hand, in Chris Marker Residence, cookie-cutter coherence is discarded in favor of self-generated rationality informed by program, site, the color of the sky, and other applicable systems. Notably, Experience imagines housing not as a mechanical repetition of units but as a system of heterogeneous parts akin to a living organism. Across their projects, music emerges as a persistent theme, as the architects draw from the languages of art and music, translating rhythm, variation, and counterpoint into spatial form. (a+u)

Essay:
Unfinished Acts
Ahmed Belkhodja

Museum, Show Room, Home
House for a Collector

Axonometric Gangways
Housing, Nursery, and Dojo

Geometric Anthill
Berthelot Collective Housing

Anti-Organic Unity
Palaiseau Student Housing

Natural Light Bigness
National Museum of Art

Systemic Variations
Chris Marker Residence

Flying Carpets School
Verdeaux School Complex

Landscape Propeller
Office Building

Anti-Monument for Robert Smithson
Center for Ancient and Contemporary Music

Space as Thought
Economy of Means, Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Chronoplan
Wolf Collective Housing

Essay:
Chronoplan
Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, Éric Lapierre

Built Model
Le Point du Jour Art Center and Publishers

What Reality? What Fiction?
Migaux Student Housing

Optic Machines Homes
Pirmil Collective Housing

Collective Scale
Refurbishment of a Grand Ensemble

Seemingly Useless
Fondeyre Urban Logistics Facility

Typological Dynamic
Flora Terrace Housing

Clashed Memories
Vives Eaux Lock Houses

Reading Raft
Vacation Home

Conversation:
From Experience to Experiment and Back Again
Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, Sharon Johnston, Éric Lapierre,
and Mark Lee

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a+u’s November issue looks at the continuity, disruption, and evolution in the works of Christ & Gantenbein from their first monograph published in 2015. Constraints in site and program are welcome opportunities to create spatial surprises. Through experimentations in the museum typology, such as the extension of the Swiss National Museum, the architects’ practice a form of urban repair, creating architectural spaces that are part of the civicness of a city, grounded in context, accessible to the public, and provide much needed “third spaces.” As evidenced by Vaugirard Social Housing, their typological approach goes beyond recreating basic functions but provides sensitive solutions to contemporary spatial issues in domestic architecture. One defining feature of their work over the years continues to be in consistent dialogue, with contemporary collaborators, historical figures, architectural concepts and with time itself. (a+u)

Swiss National Museum Extension
Kunstmuseum Basel Extension
MACBA Extension

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Standing the Test of Time
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee

New Aare Bridge
Lindt Home of Chocolate
Roche Flexible Office Building
UK House Refurbishment
List Customer Center
Willy-Brandt-Strasse Mixed-Use Building

Essay:
A Typological Evolution
Jeanette Kuo

Mixed-use Tower Pratteln
Vaugirard Social Housing
Cooperative Housing
Westhof Housing
Terraced House

Essay:
Vaugirard Social Housing
Éric Lapierre

Musik-Akademie
Pirosmani Sky
Reformation Anniversary Pavilion
Paris Internationale Art Fair
Joya Exhibition Design
10 Models
Mahalla – Urban Rural Living
Athens Series

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a+u’s October issue features the recent works of the highly acclaimed Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Active since the late 1960s, Alvaro Siza continues to build across different regions of the world, and each work of architecture reflects consciousness of the collective values of a place. This sensitivity is evident in different scales and material used, such as Clay Pavilion in Mexico, which recalls traditional construction techniques, and Renovation of the Manor Dos Magalhães, which sculpturally integrates new landscaped terraces with the critical function of the building, yet makes no unnecessary changes to the façade of the ruin. In addition to 16 recent works, architect and writer Nuno Grande composes a “poem to Porto,” which highlights 5 of the most influential projects by Alvaro Siza in his beloved city. (a+u)

Essay:
Álvaro Siza: A World Citizen
Nuno Grande

Monastery of Leça do Balio –
Rehabilitation Project and Open Sculpture

Álvaro Siza Wing
Colien House

Renovation of the Zebro Viewpoint

Renovation of the Manor Dos Magalhães for the City Archives

611W56 Tower

Vila Adeusinho

Chapel in Miljana

Watch Post and Observation Tower

Headquarters of Gramaxo Foundation

Huamao Museum of Art Education

Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House

Casa Wabi Clay Pavilion

Chia Ching Mausoleum

Municipal School of Music

Virchow 6 Building, Novartis Campus

Essay:
A Poem to Porto
Nuno Grande

Manuel Magalhães House

Bouça Housing Quarter

Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto

São Bento Metro Station

Monte da Lapa – Residence, Inn, and Coffee House

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This September issue features the Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979). In his lifetime, Nervi gained worldwide fame as one of the 20th century’s greatest creators of structural architectures, and his body of work, including his lesser-known projects, continues to affirm his remarkable contribution to his field.
Nervi was called upon to conceive works characterized by large spaces and to explore material possibilities, structure, technicality, economy, aesthetic expression, workability, and functionality. While these key concerns sometimes yielded contradictions, his aptitude for finding the ideal “compromise” where everything works was among his natural talents. Optimal compromises often lead to meek end points, but Nervi possessed the ability to create works of outstanding surprise, which is what made Nervi “the Nervi.” Notably, this skill was not an accident, but the result of his repeated experiments and deliberation.
Despite Nervi’s fame, upon his death and the subsequent unexpected closure of his office, many of his drawings were divided up and stored in a scattered way. Unfortunately, for a time Nervi was, in a sense, forgotten as posthumous criticism from prominent Italian voices curtailed open discussion of his work. Nervi was “rediscovered” in the early 1990s, and his significant legacy has reemerged today thanks to numerous research efforts, such as the seminal archival studies by Claudio Greco; the conservation activities of my fellow guest editor for this publication, Francesco Romeo; and the actions of the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Foundation. This issue’s review of Nervi’s projects not only reflects this rediscovery but also offers a comprehensive overview of his ideas and work.
As with much of modern architecture, Nervi’s works present us with the challenge of preservation. The examples of preservation and utilization presented in Irene Matteini’s essay show that preservation is our way to the future. Saikaku Toyokawa’s essay clarifies Nervi’s influence on Kenzo Tange and how Tange evaluated Nervi, while the essay by William F. Baker, a prominent structural engineer for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), brings his professional perspective to Nervi’s work and philosophy.Together, the essays bring the multidimensional facets of Pier Luigi Nervi’s oeuvre into greater focus.

Yoko Fukuda-Noennig
Guest Editor

Essay: Nervi’s Timeless Philosophy
William F. Baker
　

Early Years

Pier Luigi Nervi Early Years: 1913–1948
Claudio Greco
　Banchini Theater, Augusteo Cinema-Theater and Funicular Station /
　Berta Stadium / Aircraft Hangars / Prefabricated Hangars /
　Agricultural Workshop
Experimental Warehouse at Magliana
Milan Trade Fair Pavilion
Turin Exhibition Center: Hall B
Salt Warehouses

1950s

Turin Exhibition Center: Hall C
Tobacco Bale Warehouse
Chianciano Thermal Bath
Gatti Wool Mill
Turin Municipal Transport Company Workshop
Palazzetto dello Sport
UNESCO Headquarters
The Pirelli Tower
Flaminio Stadium
Palazzo dello Sport

Essay: Preserving Nervi
Irene Matteini

1960s

Savona Railway Station
Palazzo del Lavoro
Leverone Field House, Dartmouth College
Burgo Paper Mill
George Washington Bridge Bus Station
Water tower Fiat Mirafiori Complex
Motta Grill Motorway Service Station
Stock Exchange Tower
Australia Square Tower

Essay: Pier Luigi Nervi and Kenzo Tange
Saikaku Toyokawa

1970s

Saint Mary of Assumption Cathedral
Paul VI Audience Hall
Norfolk Scope Arena
Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia Headquarters
Australian Embassy in Paris
MLC Centre
Presidential Funeral Chapel
Good Hope Centre
Italian Embassy in Brasilia

Essay: Pier Luigi Nervi – An Enduring, Inspiring Legacy
Francesco Romeo

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“Shinkenchiku” August 2025 issue will be combined with the September issue and released as a special feature titled “100 Years of Architecture (PART 1 & PART 2)” on Shinkenchiku Data starting October 6, 2025, alongside a dedicated special website.

On the special website, the “Matrix of 100 Years of Architecture” featured in the magazine will be expanded online, allowing you to browse projects by each item in the matrix. It will offer a unique experience available only through Shinkenchiku DATA. Please look forward to it.

Special Website: Matrix of 100 Years of Architecture
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a+u’s August issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published 12 years ago (a+u 2013:06, no. 513). The 20 works presented here showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy toward the concatenation of painting and architecture. Playing with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in geometry, Pezo von Ellrichshausen invite the reader to consider the “architectonic picture,” not as a rigid reproduction but as a method of visualizing the self in the world amid all the world’s potentialities, where the physical eye and mind’s eye meet. Architecture, therefore, is not fixed but unpredictable, subject to the individual’s self-perception overlaid with the space and moment they occupy. Paintings by the duo allow us to enter their perception of architecture as both sensual and conceptual. (a+u)

Essay:
Painting, Building, Picturing
Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen

BLUE Pavilion
MINE Pavilion
MERI House
VARA Pavilion
LOBA House
HALL Pavilion
ECHO Pavilion
INES Innovation Center
RAEM House
LESS Pavilion
LUNA House
LAMA Pavilion
ROSA Pavilion

Essay:
Square Cross Circle
Angela Pang and Seng Kuan

REST Restaurant
NIET Pavilion
POND Pavilion
LIMA House
BEAR House
ESEL House
MILO House

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a+u’s July looks at how, even in a city such as New York, where projects are executed on a grand scale, designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centers the human experience. The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan provide but a small cross section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the architecture of New York City. Projects such as the Moynihan Train Hall by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) endeavor to preserve the fabric of the city while addressing the increased need for transportation hubs by the expansion of Pennsylvania station to the adjacent historic James A. Farley Building, while adaptive reuse projects such as
Gansevoort Peninsula Park by nArchitects are part of a decadeslong effort to transform the industrial waterfront into much needed green spaces and sports facilities. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) addresses the shortage of residential space with projects that integrate the materiality of the building to its context and incorporate the human scale with the urban one. Amid the massive developments taking place, smaller practices such as Worrell Yeung and WORKac seek to preserve urban character, through surgical intervention in their renovation projects.　 (a+u)

Essay:
Beyond Buildings: Four Decades of City-Making on
Manhattan’s West Side
Keith P. O’Connor

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
East End Gateway and Long Island Rail Road Concourse Renovation
Moynihan Train Hall
Manhattan West
High Line – Moynihan Connector

Research:
Office-to-Residential Conversion Study: 1633 Broadway
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Heatherwick Studio
Vessel
Little Island

nARCHITECTS
Gansevoort Peninsula Park

Snøhetta
550 Madison Avenue Garden

Essay:
The Legend of Avant-Garde Architecture and the Rise of
the Market-Fundamentalist City
Stephen Zacks

Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Spur – High Line
Columbia Business School

Worrell Yeung
Canal Projects Renovation

Essay:
Revitalizing Midtown East
Andrew Cleary

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
One Vanderbilt
55 Hudson Yards

Essay:
Craft, Context, Performance:
Defining a Contemporary American Vernacular
James von Klemperer

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
64 University Place

WORKac
Stealth Building

Gensler
Pearl House

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a+u’s June issue features Jun Aoki.
Jun Aoki, whose work spans residential, commercial, and public architecture, is one of Japan’s leading architects. Beyond his built work, his discourse has also drawn wide attention. This issue highlights projects related to art.
Regardless of its intended function, Aoki’s architecture remains open to diverse uses and invites relationships that have yet to be fully seen or defined. It stands apart from both any perceived homogeneity of contemporary society and insistence on a singular personal message. Instead, it embraces ambiguity and contradictions, allowing for the coexistence of differing values and rhythms that each individual brings to the experience of art. Nor is his design process a straightforward path toward a fixed concept. Rather, it is shaped by a desire to reach an unseen world – free from assumptions and conventions – through collaboration with people of different backgrounds, generations, and professions. Aoki suggests that this approach is most evident in the “Museum,” where elements that emerge from everyday life accumulate into culture, eventually giving rise to the museum itself.
The projects featured in this issue include public art museums, galleries, exhibition designs, and artworks. Each one transforms into a unique spatial experience depending on the art it hosts, the people who visit, and its moment in time. These 25 projects, expansive in their possibilities, embrace the fluidity of such encounters. Presented alongside newly written essays and commentary by Aoki himself, this issue aims to offer a glimpse of potential of Architecture to suggest a freer future. (a+u)

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Kyoto City Museum of Art (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art)
Proposal for V&A Exhibition Road
Proposal for TOPOGRAPHIE DES TERRORS
Proposal for Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Proposal for the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
Essay: In-Between
TARO NASU OSAKA, TARO NASU BAMBI
TARO NASU
ShugoArts
the red and blue line
Language and Art: Takashi Hiraide and the Artists
Okayama House
Wobble Tube
U bis
Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara
Wonderment Noe Aoki / Ritsue Mishima
Aki Kondo: What I Saw, When I Tore Myself Open
Essay: Renovation as Negation
AOMORI MUSEUM OF ART
The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and
the World
cobweb and spider
Essay: Fluxforms, Rrevisited
Exhibition as Temporary Renovation
Shin-Masaki Memorial Gallery
Birds Keep Swimming
HAPPY TURN 132
Clouds and Breaths
RABBIT HOLE

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a+u’s May issue offers a retrospective on sacred spaces from its archives – significant projects that have helped to shape the discourse on fostering transcendent experiences through architecture. Each of the spaces presented not only provides a space for worship, but also conveys innovative architectural approaches to express sacredness. Projects such as Bagsværd Church by Jørn Utzon align humanity with nature, whereas a project such as Seema Malaka by Geoffery Bawa draws on traditional architectural language to create connections to both nature and culture. In addition to the retrospective, this issue contrasts various ways a work of architecture can nurture a relationship with a higher force, from Lina Bo Bardi’s community-oriented Church of the Holy Spirit of Cerrado, to the more introverted and quiet sensibility seen in Christian Kerez’s Oberrealta Chapel. Finally, this issue extends the architectural archive by highlighting new spaces of contemplation, such as Cobar Sound Chapel by Glenn Murcutt and Motorway Chapel by Herzog & de Meuron, projects that reflect the significance of sound as well as vision in the human experience. (a+u)

Dialogue:
In Conversation with Erwin Viray

Herzog & de Meuron
Motorway Chapel

Glenn Murcutt and Georges Lentz
Cobar Sound Chapel

Mario Botta
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary

Hariri Pontarini Architects
Bahá’í Temple of South America

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Hill of the Buddha

John Pawson
Saint Moritz Church

K2S Architects
Kamppi Chapel

John Pawson
Abbey of Our Lady of Nový Dv°ur

Mecanoo
Saint Mary of the Angels Chapel

Steven Holl Architects
Chapel of Saint Ignatius

Álvaro Siza Vieira
Santa Maria Church of Canaveses

Mario Botta
Chapel of Saint Mary of the Angels

Oscar Niemeyer
Military Cathedral of Saint Mary Queen of Peace

Ricardo Legorreta
Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Christian Kerez
Oberrealta Chapel

Lina Bo Bardi
Church of the Holy Spirit of Cerrado

Geoffery Bawa
Seema Malaka Temple

Jørn Utzon
Bagsværd Church

Gottfriend Böhm
The Pilgrimage Church

Gio Ponti
Church of San Francesco

Church of San Carlo Hospital

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a+u’s April issue features Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), an international architectural practice, based in New York and Madrid, and presents their investigation of the more-than-human dimension of the built environment through the concept of transspecies architecture. Instead of considering humans and buildings as enclosed entities that divide territory into discrete and separable units of space, transspecies architecture counters unilateral anthropocentric thinking by imagining architecture as a gathering of heterogenous entities, from the microbes in concrete to pulmonary alveoli, with permeable layers and varying scales in between. This issue of a+u brings together architects from across the globe – Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño (TAKK) from Spain and Mio Tsuneyama (Studio mnm) and Fuminori Nousaku (Fuminori Nousaku Architects) in Japan – to further this critical dialogue into the post-anthropocentric era. (a+u)

Essay:
Transspecies Architecture: Design as the Rearticulation of
More-Than-Human Life
Andrés Jaque

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Transspecies Kitchen
The Earth Palace
The Transvector. The Center Cannot Hold
COSMO
Escaravox
PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society
Rolling House for the Rolling Society

TAKK
Solstice, garden pavilion
ARCA, portable garden
Cohabitation Dome, a soil care infrastructure
The Day After House
10K house

Fuminori Nousaku Architects and Studio mnm
Holes in the House

Fuminori Nousaku Architects
Akeno Raised Floor

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
House in Never Never Land

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo
Rambla Climate-House

Conversation:
Cosmopolitical Practices
Albena Yaneva in conversation with Andrés Jaque, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño, Fuminori Nousaku, and Mio Tsuneyama

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
Reggio School
Museum of the Ocean for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary
Art Collection
Hybrid Infrastructure: Run Run Run
RÒMOLA. A Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy
TUPPER HOME

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel de Guzmán, Enrique Krahe
Plasencia Care Home

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Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) left a huge mark not only on architecture but also on a wide range of design fields such as interiors and displays. This issue is a reprint, with a new cover, of Carlo Scarpa that was published as an extra edition of a+u in October 1985.
We hope that this issue, which has been revived after 40 years after its first publication, will provide readers with a complete picture of Scarpa’s designs. (a+u)

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a+u’s March issue interrogates sacredness and how it manifests in architectural space. Taking examples from religious works of architecture in different parts of the globe, such as Saint Pius Church in Switzerland and Bait Ur Rouf mosque in Bangladesh, this issue endeavors to establish a language of light and shadow, materiality, and scale. The notion of “sacred space” is further complicated by the introduction of AI. Guest editor Erwin Viray, using the theme of “sacred space,” introduces generative AI tools that not only illuminate the direction that architectural design may take, but also confront human sensibilities and shared ideas about architectural space. Continuing this exploration, 14 nonreligious projects, such as Luis Barragán’s Barragán House, Álvaro Siza’s Tidal Pools of Leça da Palmeira, and Anne Holtrop’s Pearl Museum, ponder how this sense of sacredness, feelings of awe and serenity, can be introduced into our everyday lives. (a+u)

Architectural Space and
Religious Practices

Franz Füeg
Saint Pius Church

Eero Saarinen
MIT Chapel

Tadao Ando Architect and Associates
Meditation space, UNESCO

Marina Tabassum
Bait Ur Rouf Jame Mosque

Andra Matin
As Sobur Mosque

Atelier Deshaus
Upper Cloister in Golden Mountain

Essay: Sacred Space in Architecture – AI Ideas
Erwin Viray

Essay: Reconsidering Sacred Space Through AI
Image Generation
Ryotaro Yanagi, Ryoma Nishida,
Kazuki Uemura, Nana Tsuzuki,
Yukiha Asano

Essay: On Cats, Dunces, and the Uncannily
Human Talents of Generative AI
Mario Carpo

Architectural Plane: Ground

Oscar Niemeyer + gru.a
From Where You Can’t See
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David Chipperfield Architects
Cavea Arcari

Trahan Architects
Fundo Tic Toc Pier

Architectural Plane: Wall

Luis Barragán
Barragán House

Valerio Olgiati
Atelier Bardill

Álvaro Siza Vieira
Tidal Pools of Leça da Palmeira

Architectural Plane: Openings

Studio Anne Holtrop
Siyadi Pearl Museum

Leeon Architects
Yoon Dong-ju Memorial Museum

USE studio
Qaeli Guest house

DAAZ Office
Jadgal Elementary School

Architectural Plane: Roof

LUO Studio
Prepared Rehmannia Root Crafts Exhibition Hall

Tabanlıogˇ lu Architects
Beyazit State Library Renovation

IROJE Architects and Planners
Aquarius Pyramid

Studio Olafur Eliasson
The Weather Project

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The February 2025 Special Issue of a+u is titled Encyclopedia of NIKKEN. Spanning 304 pages and featuring around 380 projects, this book introduces Nikken Sekkei’s ideas in an encyclopedic format. With over 3,000 members including its affiliated groups, Nikken Sekkei launched this project by exploring its design strategies. Rather than consolidating all ideas into a single, overarching strategy and discarding the rest, the focus here is on gathering unique ideas and unformed architectural concepts from each individual. These ideas were collected and categorized as NIKKEN DESIGN GOALS (NDG). The approximately 380 projects showcased in this collection reflect Nikken Sekkei’s commitment to addressing societal challenges through architecture, while also revealing the firm’s current limitations. By presenting these realities openly, this collection also aims to encourage future collaboration with external partners. It represents Nikken Sekkei’s approach to broad design, where all members—not only those in architectural design—engage in creative practice. (a+u)

Dialogue　Encyclopedia of NIKKEN

Sharing NIKKEN’s World of Ideas in Response to Societal Needs

Chief Design Officers of Nikken Sekkei

Goal 01│Global Environment
Zero Energy Building (ZEB)　Wood　Greenery　Water　
Air　Wind　Light　Longevity　
FACT 01-1│Understanding Our Carbon Emissions　FACT 01-2│Creating Greenery　

Goal 02│Wellness & Resilience
Enriching External Spaces　Comfortable Interior Spaces　　Designing Quietness　
Architecture Respecting Diversity　Imaginative Interior Spaces　Publicly Beneficial Resilience　
FACT 02│Designs for Well-Being & Resilience　

Goal 03│next TOD
Transit Oriented Development (TOD)　Shibuya　Mobility and Cities
FACT 03│TOD Implementation in Shibuya

Goal 04│Flexibile Design
Flexible Masterplan　Open Ground-Level Spaces
Pursuit of Universal Spaces　Flexible Systems Design
FACT 04│The Rise of the Super-Large

Goal 05│Digital Transformation
Digital Form Design　Digital Façade Design　Digital Environmental Design
FACT 05│The Digital Surge in Architectural and Urban Design

Goal 06│Conversion & Re-use
Preserving the Original 　Updating the Parts　Adding New Elements
Reuse　Avoiding Overbuilding　Constructing in Ancient Cities
Dialogue with Nature　Creating Urban Landscapes
FACT 06│Reusing Over Rebuilding

Goal 07│Regulation Design
Contributing to the City　Creating Plazas　Shapes Guided by Regulations
FACT 07│The Evolving Scope of Our Business

Goal 08│Organization Design
Spaces for Innovation　Client Collaboration　+NIKKEN
FACT 08│Managerial Employee Count & Gender Ratio

Goal 09│Global Design
Iconic / Forms　Japan Style
FACT 09│Nikken Sekkei from a Global Standpoint

Goal 10│Risk Management
Achieving High Quality in Overseas Projects
FACT 10│Global Expansion Since 2000

Goal 11│All NIKKEN Design
Engineering Supporting Global Innovation　Data Centers
Realizing Spaces with Structural Technology

Goal 12│Value Up Design
Creating Value through New Forms　Leveraging Low Costs　Branding
FACT 12│Tech Development as a Holistic Design Practice

Goal 13│Sophisticated Design
Designing from the Details　Pursuing Meticulous Beauty　　Designing through Structure
Pursuing Reinforced Concrete　Focusing on Façade Design　　Focusing on Masonry Design
FACT 13│Accolades from Within the Field

Goal 14│Design for Unpredictability
FACT 14│Designing in Hazard Areas

Goal 15│Aspirational Design

Index

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a+u’s February issue reflects on the point of connection between water, architecture, and people. Drawn from 6 Nordic countries, the 19 projects presented in this issue explore diverse pursuits, from the rehabilitation of industrial ports into lively urban centers, to questions of accessibility and the extension of habitable space onto and into bodies of water. Projects such as Lonna Sauna and Bademaschinen continue historical practices of bathing and sauna found in the region, while urban-scale developments such as Nordhavn take on the challenge of designing for a future marked by climate change and rising sea levels. With a focus on the Nordic region, this issue highlights architectural strategies for maintaining – and enhancing – our relationship to the natural environment. (a+u)

ACT! and Borhaven Arkitekter
Bademaschinen

Basalt Architects
Guðlaug baths

MATTERS
Winter Bathing House – Isfuglen

OOPEAA
Lonna Sauna

Essay:
Water as Part of Life in the City
Anssi Lassila

OOPEAA
Periscope Tower

ADEPT
Vestre Fjordpark

White Arkitekter
Stormwater Pond

Tideland Studio, Rumgehør, Ajarose Stinee Solvind
New Ark

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
Skjern River – Transformation of Three Pump Stations

Henning Larsen
Eystur Town Hall

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The Twist
Aarhus Harbor Bath and Beach Houses
BIG HQ

Cobe
The Silo and Nordhavn

LundHagem and Atelier Oslo
Deichman Public Library

WilkinsonEyre
Lille Langebro Cycle and Pedestrian Bridge

Gottlieb Paludan architects
Tyresta National Park Bridge

alt Arkkitehdit
Oil-Spill Recovery Unit

Snøhetta
Under

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a+u’s January issue features projects by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) from the past 15 years, as well as works to be completed in the near future. With offices in Genoa and Paris, RPBW is skilled in building in historic cities such as London, Istanbul, and New York. Yet their analytical approach, which centers the human experience by demonstrating an awareness of history, culture, and climate, produces architecture that is either in harmony or in tension with its surroundings, depending on the unique parameters of the site. The solarpunk spirit that has distinguished RPBW over the years comes through in smaller humanist projects such as the Children’s Surgical Hospital in Uganda, which combines local techniques of rammed-earth construction with high-tech photovoltaic panels, but also in buildings of monumental scale, such as the cliff-like Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. This issue of a+u highlights RPBW creative agility by presenting 25 works, including 3 ongoing projects, that encompass principles of structural and visual lightness, environmental integration, and human-centered design. (a+u)

Essay:
RPBW: From Atelier to Building Site
Fulvio Irace

Paddington Square
Pathé Palace
Istanbul Modern
GES–2 House of Culture
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
CERN Science Gateway Building

Essay:
Renzo Piano Building Workshop: In Search of Common Values 62
Nicolai Ouroussoff

Marunouchi Tokio Marine
New Grands–Montets Ropeway Stations
The Orto Rampante
Children’s Hospice
Children’s Surgical Hospital
Citadel University Campus
Manhattanville Campus Plan
The Forum
Jerome L. Greene Science Center for Mind Brain Behavior
Lenfest Center for the Arts
Centro Botín 1
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Jérôme Seydoux Pathé Foundation
Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort
Kimbell Art Museum Expansion
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Resnick Pavilion (LACMA Expansion – Phase II)
Ronchamp Gatehouse and Monastery
The Shard

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