Articles by Junko Kawakami

Why did the three architects of RCR Arquitectes, who have created works quietly in a rural town in the Catalonia region of Spain, win one of the highest distinctions in architecture? At the May 20 award ceremony in Japan, world-renowned architect Glenn Murcutt — a past recipient of the award…

Why did the three architects of RCR Arquitectes, who have created works quietly in a rural town in the Catalonia region of Spain, win one of the highest distinctions in architecture? At the May 20 award ceremony in Japan, world-renowned architect Glenn Murcutt — a past recipient of the award…

In March, it was announced that a Spanish trio of architects — Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta — would receive this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, often dubbed the Nobel Prize of architecture. After studying architecture at university, the three architects established RCR Arquitectes…

In Tokyo, one of the world’s most overcrowded cities, land is expensive and it is always difficult to find and buy an ideal plot. So building houses on difficult patches of land is not uncommon. At the same time, such challenges encourage Japanese architects to create impressive and ingenious buildings….