More than a decade after the Great Earthquake of Fukushima (East Japan, 2011), Taro Igarashi analyses, in this essay, the impact on architecture and art of a catastrophe of this magnitude and the lessons provided by the demands of reconstruction. The author is a historian and critic of architecture and a professor at the University of Tohoku, Japan. He was curator of the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice International Architecture Biennale, in 2008, and artistic director of the Aichi Triennale, in 2013. He is one of the authors of Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture (2009).