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The Asia–Europe axis
A short field guide to the line this atlas is drawn along.
This is not a travel blog and not an art-news feed. It is an atlas drawn along a single line: the axis between East Asia and Europe, read through the art and architecture made along it.
We are interested in how a place explains itself — and how art and architecture do the explaining.
The connections are real, not rhetorical. Perriand carried European steel to Tokyo and brought bamboo back to Paris. Lee Ufan moves between Seoul, Japan and the south of France. Sugimoto's horizons hang as easily on the Riviera as in Tokyo. Follow any one of them and you cross the axis.
An archive sorts things into boxes. An atlas shows you the roads between them.
That is the whole intent of the links you will find under every story, artist, work and place: not to file the material, but to let you keep moving through it — from a building to a hillside in Provence and back.
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