Jun'ya Ishigami Explained

Jun'ya Ishigami
Birth Place:	Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Alma Mater:	Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Awards:	Architectural Institute of Japan Prize
Practice:	junya.ishigami+associates
Significant Buildings:	Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop

(born 1974 in Kanagawa prefecture) is a Japanese architect.^[1]

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.^[1]

In 2008, Ishigami designed the Japanese pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2009, he was the youngest ever recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop in 2009. He won the Golden Lion for Best Project at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, and became an associate professor at Tohoku University in Japan. That same year, his innovative integration of context's complexity to his projects led him to win a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.^{[2] [3]} 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.^{[4] [5]}

Works

• Table exhibit at the Art Basel exhibition, 2006
• Balloon exhibit at the "Space for your Future" Exhibiti on, 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^[6]
• Serpentine Galleries Pavilion, 2019 ^[7]
• Zaishu Art Museum, Rizhao, China 2023^[8]

External links

• Junya Ishigami, Freeing Architecture at the Fondation Cartier, Paris (VR views of the exhibition)
• 5 projects to understand Junya Ishigami’s architecture-poetry (Hervé Chandès writing in Domus magazine)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Japan Architect nr.70 . 16 April 2011 . 30 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100830153836/http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/2maga/ja/ja0070/profile2.html . dead .
2. Book: Contal. Marie-Hélène. Sustainable design II, Towards a new ethics for architecture and the city. Revedin. Jana. Actes Sud. October 2011. 978-2-330-00085-1. Paris.
3. Web site: Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. 2020-06-08. Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine. en.
4. https://www.kiesler.org/en/kiesler-prize-2024-2. kiesler.org. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
5. Web site: Junya Ishigami awarded Frederick Kiesler Prize – Announcements – e-flux . 2024-07-01 . www.e-flux.com . en.
6. News: George Street sculpture revealed in $9m public art spending spree. Robertson. James. 29 July 2014. Sydney Morning Herald. 29 July 2014.
7. Web site: Serpentine Pavilion 2019 by Junya Ishigami. 2021-11-16. Serpentine Galleries. en-GB.
8. Web site: Zaishui Art Museum / junya ishigami + associates. 1 February 2024. ArchDaily.