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Architecture in Animation: Exploring Hayao Miyazaki’s Fictional Worlds 

Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan’s greatest animated filmmakers, authors, manga artists, and co-founder of Studio Ghibli has since been inspiring an entire generation, narrating the evolution of Japanese society within animation, focusing on two primary themes: urbanism and nature. The complexity of Miyazaki’s mind is reflected in his films, a medium he used to expose how insignificant and small we as humans are, compared to the encompassing magnitude of nature surrounding us.

“Miyazaki places his narratives in natural and architectural contexts characterized by impressive graphic richness, the complexity of textures, and scrupulous attention to the smallest detail. The studio bases its ideas on real things and environments, but with fantastic skin. Beams and pillars unite fantasy and reality, making the structural details very precise and of great artistic and sentimental value.” – Dani Cavallaro