de Young Museum
Herzog & de Meuron's copper-clad museum in Golden Gate Park — a building designed to disappear into its landscape as the metal skin slowly turns green.
MFAH Kinder Building
Steven Holl's translucent museum of concave and convex tubes — a building that glows from within and dissolves the line between gallery and garden.
TWA Flight Center
Eero Saarinen's sculptural terminal at JFK — a concrete shell that made flight feel like flight before you ever left the ground.
Notre-Dame du Haut
Le Corbusier's pilgrimage chapel on a hilltop in Ronchamp — where concrete curves like clay and light enters through wounds in the wall.
Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier's 1925 manifesto in built form — a house designed as a promenade architecturale, where movement through space is the architecture itself.
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
John Portman's atrium hotel on the Embarcadero — a vertical interior city where concrete balconies spiral upward around a seventeen-story void.
津梅棧道 Jin-Mei Forest Walkway
A pedestrian boardwalk threaded beneath a highway bridge in Yilan City — Huang Sheng-Yuan's quiet intervention that turns infrastructure into public life.
Katsura Imperial Villa
A seventeenth-century villa and garden in Kyoto that taught modern architecture everything it thought it invented — modular space, fluid plan, the dissolution of wall and landscape.
MFAH Beck Building
Rafael Moneo's limestone pavilion for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — a building of restrained surfaces and carefully measured light.
Vitra Campus
A pilgrimage site for architecture and design on the German-Swiss border, where buildings by Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Tadao Ando stand in conversation across a single campus.
Schindler House
Rudolph Schindler's 1922 experiment in living — a house built from concrete, glass, and canvas that dissolved the boundary between indoor and outdoor life in West Hollywood.
Palais de Tokyo
A raw concrete vessel for contemporary art on the banks of the Seine, where the architecture refuses to compete with the work it holds.
Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier's white box in the fields of Poissy — the building that codified modern architecture's five points and turned a weekend house into a manifesto.
Seattle Central Library
Rem Koolhaas and OMA's diamond-skinned library in downtown Seattle — a building that treats books, light, and public space as a single continuous material.
羅東文化工場 Luodong Cultural Working House
A massive open-air canopy in Luodong, Yilan — Huang Sheng-Yuan's public stage that shelters gathering without enclosing it.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Carlo Scarpa's 1963 renovation of a Venetian palazzo — where water is not kept out but invited in, and every joint is a meditation on how materials meet.