SOU FUJIMOTO, one of the greatest Japanese architects of the moment, established his architectural practice Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Since then, he was awarded many distinctions, being World Architecture Festival winner in the Private House category, in 2008, receiving a RIBA International Fellowship, in 2012, and being named by The Wall Street Journal the Architecture the Innovator of the Year 2014. He was the youngest architect to accept the 2013 Serpentine Gallery’s invitation, at 41. The three-dimensional steel grid cloud has been rewarded with a great enthusiasm, as many of his works, that doesn’t aim just to define a structure and enclose a space — the basic function of architecture — but to make people relate to spaces in new ways.
His works fit into the place between the natural and the human artificial, with a complex interpretation of spaces and forms as revealed by his many homes in Japan: the T House, House N, or some of his large-scale projects White Tree (L’Arbre Blanc), Wooden Mixed-Use Tower for Bordeaux, Taiwan Tower.
His vibrant composite spaces, the primitive futures, are a synthesis of nature and architecture, working with the ordinary in an extraordinary way in to contribute to the generous enrichment of the architectural language.
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