The National Art Center, Tokyo

This guide to The National Art Center in Tokyo starts with an oddity: one of Japan's largest art museums that owns no permanent collection at all, built as an empty vessel for traveling exhibitions after decades of artists asking for exactly that. It follows Kisho Kurokawa, a founder of the 1960s Metabolism movement who imagined buildings that grow and change, as he designed this one to open in January 2007. Look up at the curtain of curved glass rolling along the facade as you listen.