The doghouse 2.0, that’s what Kenya Hara has in mind. The Japanese architect, graphic designer and curator has been the art director of Muji since 2001 and designed the opening and closing ceremony programs of the Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998. For his latest project called ‘Architectures for Dogs‘ he asked a couple of architects to devise new original shelters for dogs. From ergonomic and simple shapes to more elaborate and complex designs, it’s an eclectic series of doghouses that correspond each architect’s unique style. It’s an extremely sincere collection of architecture and a new medium, which make dogs and their people happy. By looking at the diagrams or pictures or watching the videos, people all over the world can make these themselves. Dogs are people’s partners, living right beside them, but they are also animals that humans, through crossbreeding, have created in multitudes of breeds. Reexamining these close partners with fresh eyes may be a chance to reexamine both human beings themselves and the natural environment.