All participating crafts from the past

Architect・Taichi Kuma：Theme “SAKA-MORI”

Taichi Kuma
Architect. TAILAND CEO.
1985 : Born in Tokyo
2013-2014 Master course, University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)
2014-2016 PhD course, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, JAPAN)
2017-2020 SHoP Architects(New York, USA)
2021- TAILAND

Offcial Website

Architect・Tsuyoshi Tane：Theme “Masu = Mass”

Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect based in Paris and Founder of Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects. He is currently overseeing many projects in Europe, Japan and other locations in the world. His works include Estonian National Museum (2006–2016), A House for Oiso (2014–15), LIGHT is TIME (2014) (with DGT.), Hirosaki Museum (2017–) among others. Tsuyoshi has received numerous awards including the French Ministry of Culture Architecture Prize (2007), French Architects Overseas Grand Prix (2016), and 67th Japanese Ministry New Face Award of Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (2017). He has been teaching at Columbia University GSAPP since 2012.

Offcial Website

Architect・Yuko Nagayama：Theme “ROPE”

1998-2002: Worked for Jun Aoki & Associates, established Yuko Nagayama Architects in 2002. Winner of numerous awards, including L’Oreal Award Encouragement Prize, JCD Design Award Encouragement Prize, AR Awards (UK) Award of Excellence, Architectural Record Design Vanguard 2012 (USA). Major works include LOUIS VUITTON Kyoto Daimaru Store, House with a Hill, ANTEPRIMA, Kayaba Coffee, SISII and others.

Also, plans are currently underway for the Dubai International Expo Japan Pavilion (2020) and a skyscraper in Shinjuku Kabukicho (2022).

Offcial Website

Architect・dot architects：Theme “BAMBOO”

Architectural unit founded by Toshikatsu Ienari and Takeshi Akashiro. Based in Kitakagaya, Osaka, they are a ‘collaborative studio for practising another society’ copor Kitakagaya, where people and organisations from different fields gather. 2016: awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Major works include NO.00 (Number Zero Zero) and Umaki camp.

Offcial Website

Architect・Sosuke Fujimoto/Sora Shokubutsuen：Theme “SAKURA”

[Sousuke Fujimoto] First-class architect. Representative of Sousuke Fujimoto Architects. Specially-appointed associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Winner of numerous awards, including the Japan Architecture Grand Prize and the JIA New Designer Award. Major works include Seto Forest Residence, Musashino Art University Library, House N and White Tree.
Representative of the Sora Botanical Gardens. He is the fifth generation of a flower and plant wholesaler that has been in business for 150 years since the end of the Edo period. He has travelled all over Japan and dozens of countries around the world and has collected thousands of plants. With the plant materials he collects on a daily basis, he responds to as many as 2,000 projects a year, including domestic and international commissions. His major works include Yoyogi VILLAGE, Look up the Cherry Blossoms, Sakura project, Kagaya Matsuno-Heki and others.

Offcial Website

Architect・Koichi Sugino：Theme “Food Stall”

Koichi Suzuno founded TORAFU ARCHITECTS in 2004 with Shinya Kamuro. Works by the duo include a diverse range of products, from architectural design to interior design for shops, exhibition space design, product design, spatial installations and film making. Amongst some of their mains works are 'TEMPLATE IN CLASKA', 'NIKE 1LOVE', 'HOUSE IN KOHOKU', 'airvase' , 'Gulliver Table' and “Big T”. ‘Light Loom (Canon Milano Salone 2011)’ was awarded the Grand Prize of the Elita Design Award. In 2015, airvase is selected for permanent collection of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Published in 2011were the 'airvase book' and 'TORAFU ARCHITECTS 2004-2011 Idea + Process' (by BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA CO., LTD.) , in 2012, a picture book titled ‘TORAFU's Small City Planning' (by Heibonsha Limited) and in 2016, ‘TORAFU ARCHITECTS Inside Out' (by TOTO Publishing).

Offcial Website