Ishita Sharma is a Dallas-based  artist and architect who runs Studio ISH. All photos are (c) Studio ISH.

As a Travelling Fellow in Tokyo (facilitated by the Dallas Center for Architecture) in 2010, I set out to understand the world’s largest megalopolis not just an aggregation of built form, but as an evolving culture that inhabits built form, embedded in urban context. My investigations yielded glimpses into the impacts of global assimilation on the ordinary, mundane spaces of habitation. The cyclical city never failed to surprise, and I relished the opportunity to examine not its ‘google‐able’ monuments, but the un‐documented, happenstance, very-much-alive city that is often lost to its flashier metropolitan counterparts.

These images show my walk through the city, chasing nostalgia as it fades through some of Tokyo’s fast evolving ku’s, or districts. Keep reading.

by ishita sharma

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