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Joanna Kawecki
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Let intuition guide your designs: Koichi Futatsumata
Just how much do you trust your intuition? Japanese architect and designer Koichi Futatsumata designs based on his senses rather than a clear planning method, or academic research. We find out how it all comes together.
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Keiji Ashizawa on the beauty of harmonised simplicity
It all starts with context and materiality for Japanese architect and designer, Keiji Ashizawa, whose work can be defined by harmonised details through an emphasis on simplicity and curated collaboration.
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Integration: The key ingredient of CASE-REAL
One of Japan’s leading architecture and design firms, Case-Real looks to integration as a key element across their practice, both in materials and environment.
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Suppose Design Office’s uncharted territory
Finding a way to integrate multiple facets of the built environment, Japanese architecture firm Suppose Design Office not only creates contemporary projects but has opened a real estate agency and construction company all under one roof.
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Could these be the next new masters of Japanese architecture?
Japan has produced half a dozen Pritzker Prize-winning architects. Design is in the blood. But who is the next generation of design talent from this country – we take a look at the names you should know now and enjoy the beauty of the work they’re producing.