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Jun'ya Ishigami

b. 1974

Japanese architect (born 1974)

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About Jun'ya Ishigami

Born 1974. Jun'ya Ishigami is a Japanese architect and university teacher.

(born 1974 in Kanagawa prefecture) is a Japanese architect.

Ishigami completed his master's degree in architecture and planning at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. Between 2000 and 2004, he worked with Kazuyo Sejima at SANAA before establishing his own firm in 2004: junya.ishigami+associates. In 2014 he was made the Kenzo Tange Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the US. In 2016 he won the international architecture prize Swiss Architectural Award. Now he has got an Atelier at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. In 2024, he received the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.

Works Table exhibit at the Art Basel exhibition, 2006 Balloon exhibit at the "Space for your Future" Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2007 Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008 The Yohji Yamamoto fashion store, New York City, 2008 KAIT Studio for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 2008 Port of Kinmen Passenger Service Center, Kinmen, Taiwan, 2014 Cloud Arch, a major proposed sculpture for Sydney, Australia, 2017 Art Biotop Water Gardens, an outdoor extension to the Art Biotop Nasu resort in Nasu District, Tochigi, Japan, 2019 Serpentine Galleries Pavilion, 2019 Zaishu Art Museum, Rizhao, China, 2023

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Born
1974, Kanagawa Prefecture
Birth century
Nationality
Education
Tokyo University of the Arts
Awards
Obel award; Frederick Kiesler Prize
Also known as
Junya Ishigami

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Who is Jun'ya Ishigami?

Japanese architect (born 1974)

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Jun'ya Ishigami was born in 1974 in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Jun'ya Ishigami is an architect and university teacher.

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Jun'ya Ishigami is Japanese.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jun'ya Ishigami

· Wikidata: Q3070853

· DBpedia: Jun'ya Ishigami

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