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Published in 5/2019 - Ecology

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An Architecture Shaped by the Wind, the Water and the Sun

Maiju Suomi

Seirensho Art Museum, Inujima, Japan. Photo Maiju Suomi & Patrik Söderlund

All too often, discussions about sustainability in architecture are reduced to the technical performance of buildings and the materials we use to construct them. Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi offers an altogether more lyrical approach.

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