Fukuoka is also home to a small-scale architecture and design wonder: yatai, small street stalls unshuttered and assembled each night to become fully functioning restaurants.
Usefulness aside, the best – the K2 of 1924 and K6 of 12 years later, both designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral and Waterloo Bridge – are fine works of small-scale architecture.
What he offered through his Rural Studio student workshop in Greensboro, Ala., associated with Auburn University, was small-scale architecture that could help lift people out of poverty by providing affordable housing as well as community buildings.
If the graceful interweaving of modernism and classicism at the Morgan demonstrates the power that brilliantly conceived, intense pieces of small-scale architecture can possess, the Times building, so far at least, shows the opposite.
Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things, published by Phaidon, is Roke's first book and a thorough exploration of small-scale architecture.
When writing her book about small-scale architecture, Rebecca Roke researched sheds, pods and other structures that we might associate with tiny living.
Tree-shaped networks are now being considered as small-scale architectures for high-densities in electronics cooling and fuel cells design.
The much smaller architecture department, also part of Parsons, is more expensive, to operate, because each student requires expensive materials.
After decades of working for the family business, he says he is considering opening a small architecture firm when he retires.
Plus, we'd both been laid off from our jobs: I from a community college where I taught English, and he from a small architecture firm.
