TY - JOUR TI - Tokyo. One city. Ten cases of architecture AU - Skaza, Maciej TI - Tokyo. One city. Ten cases of architecture AB - Tokyo, one of the global cities – so multi-threaded, vast, that almost indescribable. This article attempts to present an overview of the city and selected examples of contemporary architecture, that permanently inscribing in the canon of architecture, not only certify their affiliation with the art of building, but also enable to show the characteristic icons of Tokyo. Simultaneously, attention was directed to the role of the tectonics of architectural form, and the shape of buildings with respect to its observer’s perception of architecture. VL - 2015 IS - Architektura Zeszyt 2-A (2) 2015 PY - 2016 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 173 EP - 190 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.15.020.3765 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/tokyo-one-city-ten-cases-of-architecture KW - Tokyo KW - theory of architecture KW - tectonics of form KW - perception of architecture