Concept Development of Megastructure: Study of megastructure trend in longitudinal time horizon through Google Ngram Viewer and theoretical texts

Dictionaries often define “Megastructure” as “a very large multi-story building or complex” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 2022). Somebody who first encounters the term must value such a definition; although it does not reflect the actual meaning that architects attach to the term. In the mid-twentieth century, the concept of...