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This article surveyed selected works by Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami, Jun Aoki, and Makoto Yokomizo. In some of their most important works completed in the past two decades, the architects have shown a propensity for recursive structures and procedures that generate many sequences of architectural forms, spaces, and conditions. The architects’ design approach frequently involved reducing architectural forms to singular elements of pure geometry or creating instantly recognizable forms, followed by subsequent procedures replicating singular elements repeatedly in varying conditions to develop a coherent whole. The resulting architecture is conducive to generating a spatial landscape distinguished by intrinsic ambiguity and non-hierarchical order. This article investigates the recurrent formal qualities of recursion that the architects explored in their works and the significance of such an approach.