DAITOUA

These specimens were collected from the rooftop gardens of unrealized megastructures, pressed between the pages of architectural manifestos that never found their buildings. Each leaf carries the memory of a climate that existed only in scale models, each petal the color of a sunset viewed through the windows of a capsule tower that was never assembled.

The taxonomic classifications follow no established system. They are named instead for the architects who dreamed the spaces where they might have grown: Kurokawa's bifolia, with its modular symmetry; Isozaki's aurea, golden and ruinous; Tange's megastructa, sprawling and interconnected. A parallel botany for a parallel architecture.

Note the recurring circular forms throughout the collection. The botanist who cataloged these specimens observed that every flower, regardless of its origin structure, tended toward the circle, as if the plants themselves were attempting to become bubbles, to capture and hold the light of cities that existed only as possibility.