Too Much: Magazine of Romantic Geography looks at architecture through the lens of culture and society, documenting our collective experiences of cities. This eighth issue explores the shape of shelter — looking far beyond Tokyo, they pick apart concrete habitats from paper houses to luxury hotels.

In this issue:

• A pilgrimage around Japan with Satoshi Murakami and his untethered house
• Meet the North Face Development Team in charge of creating a new iteration of the geodesic dome of the 1950s
• Shigeru Ban’s plans for housing in the new settlement in Kalobeyei
• Visit the ruined towns in Fukushima with Bruno Latour
• Gordon Matta-Clark’s legendary bodega-turned-kitchen, FOOD, that emerged in 70s New York from the broken infrastructure of the metropolis, serving alchemical concoctions and cheap sake to the neighbourhoods’ hungry artists
• Enter Anne Hardy’s meticulously staged scenes: structures created from what is left behind, existing on a precipice