After a long and fruitful career, Tadao Ando decided that it was time for him to make an altruistic contribution to Osaka, the city where he was raised and developed as an architect. Ando wanted to pay tribute to the children of Osaka, the next gener
The project is an opera house in a cultural complex that is anticipated to shape the core of the cultural zone of Jiading New Town, a suburb which is developing rapidly based on its car industry, and that is 30 km northwest of Shanghai. Owing to the
Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools
The château La Coste Winery is located 15 kilometers north of the old town area of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. The project included the restructuring of the complex to transform it into a garden museum dotted with outdoor sculptures and pavil
After winning the international competition for the Fondation François Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, this project had to be abandoned due to a series of problems. Shortly after, the studio received a new commission from the client in Veni
Tokyo Midtown is the result of a long redevelopment project on the former site of the Defense Ministry in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Constructed in a public park in the northwest part of this recovered area, this gallery for exhibitions on the t
Located amid gently rolling hills in western Germany, this is a small museum for exhibiting the work of sculptor Wolfgang Kubach and his wife Anna Maria Kubach-Wilmsen, world-famous for their stone sculptures. A gabled-roof barn, built in the 18th ce
The site is located in a quiet residential district close to the center of Chicago. Along this long, narrow north-south oriented site, the objective was to produce a comfortable and private residential space while developing an interaction with the n
The house, baptized House before House, is one of the four conceptual pavilions built by the energy company Tokyo Gas as part of the Sumika project. The objective of the company was to reflect on the house of the future taking the archetypal dwelling
This text is an excerpt from the conversation between the French Jacques Lucan and the Swiss Martin Steinmann regarding ‘A Matter of Art’, an exhibition on current Swiss architecture held at the Centre Culturel Suisse of Paris in the spring of 2001.
La realidad es clónica. Tanto la pedagogía como la retórica recomiendan la repetición, pero la vida la exige sin matices. Borges juzgaba abominables los espejos y la cópula, porque multiplican el número de los seres: fruto de espejos deformados o de
