This husband-and-wife-led firm is crossing boundaries between disciplines and cultures.

When Bolle Tham and Martin VidegÅrd opened their Stockholm office 10 years ago, the established architecture in Sweden was, according to them, boring.

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A young Danish architectural firm is living up to its acronym with bold projects home and abroad.

As the principal of beijing-based DnA_Design and architecture, Xu Tiantian is one of the few women to head an architectural practice in China."

Both from working-class communities in the middle of the country (Miller grew up in Illinois; Taylor hails from Colorado), the pair share an affinity for hand-tooled architecture with conceptual underpinnings.

Architects Masahiro and Mao Harada, the principals of Mount Fuji Architects Studio, are mountain people.

Given the opportunity for a solo show in central Tokyo, most young architects would put their buildings on display.