Sou Fujimoto
Biography
One of Japan’s best-known contemporary architects, Sou Fujimoto (Hokkaido, 1971) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
He rose to fame a few years later when he won the Architectural Review Awards 3 years in a row, priize assigned to emerging figures in the architecture world. For Fujimoto, in the complexity of the natural environment “is injected the human sense of order (and vice versa), bringing forth a new definition of space that responds to changing times.”
In 2012, Fujimoto was part of the team that was awarded the Leone D'Orio at the Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition. In 2017, he designed the Bookchair project for Alias. He lives and works between Tokyo and Paris.
projects and human existence
The design poetics of Sou Fujimoto, one of the main designers in contemporary architecture, meet the technological lightness of Alias, for which he creates an innovative bookcase.
‘‘Bookchair comes to life through the aggregation of a new element, the chair within the bookcase, based on a concept that aims to reflect the basic, fundamental relationship between a book and its reader”.
sou Fujimoto
