SANAA   United States   Silent and exquisite, a silvery serpentine rooftop slithers down the gentle hillslopes of an estate in Connecticut to be home to a complex devoted to faith, education, and the arts.

Kengo Kuma   United States   New Canaan is known as a town where many houses from the 1950s by such architects as Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer still remain. This is a project to repair a residence designed by Joe Black Leigh in 1956, aiming to inherit the spirit of the beaut

It would not be an exaggeration to classify the architectures of the world in accordance with the manner in which they relate with nature. Some dominate it, as does western architecture; others engage in dialogue with it, as does Asian architecture.