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The February 2025 Special Issue of a+u is titled Encyclopedia of NIKKEN. Spanning 304 pages and featuring around 380 projects, this book introduces Nikken Sekkei’s ideas in an encyclopedic format.
With over 3,000 members including its affiliated groups, Nikken Sekkei launched this project by exploring its design strategies. Rather than consolidating all ideas into a single, overarching strategy and discarding the rest, the focus here is on gathering unique ideas and unformed architectural concepts from each individual. These ideas were collected and categorized as NIKKEN DESIGN GOALS (NDG). The approximately 380 projects showcased in this collection reflect Nikken Sekkei’s commitment to addressing societal challenges through architecture, while also revealing the firm’s current limitations. By presenting these realities openly, this collection also aims to encourage future collaboration with external partners. It represents Nikken Sekkei’s approach to broad design, where all members—not only those in architectural design—engage in creative practice.