Files on Air: Episode 3 – Brendon Carlin, No-House: Shameless Architecture in 21st-Century Japan

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Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from AA Files read their work. In this episode, you will hear Brendon Carlin – an architect, critic, researcher, and AA School tutor – read his text ‘No-House: Shameless Architecture in 21st-Century Japan'. In this piece, Carlin examines the legacy of Japan’s ‘lost decade’, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima’s Atelier Bow-Wow and the ‘shameless architecture’ that illuminates the reality of certain conditions in Tokyo. You can read the piece in AA Files 79.

AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record, which promotes original and engaging writing on architecture and its related fields.

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