Asia

The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture pushes past cliches of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenisation than one of cultural invention.

This issue of Architecture China focusses on the role that mass media and social media have played in contemporary Chinese architecture and how architects actively engage media as an architectural strategy.

This special issue of Architecture Asia gives a comprehensive review of the 26 winning projects of ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2022 which includes Single Family Residential Projects, Multi-family Residential Projects, Commercial Buildings, Resort Buildings, Institutional Buildings, Social and Cultural Buildings and more besides.

This issue of Architecture Asia reveals the development of Thailand contemporary architecture, and features five essays and twelve projects that elaborate this perspective.

* Stories behind Hong Kong's famous architecture * Architecture of Asia's World City * Architecture: East meets West * Magnificence of Hong Kong Cityscape

The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare.