Junya Ishigami Keynote: My Work I

Junya Ishigami is a Japanese Architect and founder of Tokyo-based firm junya.ishigami+associates. Born in Tokyo in 1975, Ishigami studied at the Musashi Institute of Technology and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Before founding his own firm, he worked alongside Kazuyo Sejima + Associates from 2000-2004. Ishigami is currently the Kenzo Tange Design Critic at Harvard University, an Associate Professor at Tokohu University, and has completed the commission for the 2019 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. By questioning the common understanding of architecture and architectural possibility, Ishigami is able to create beyond trend, established principle and definition, while developing new structures, new spaces and organise environments in original ways. Drawing cues from nature and thermodynamics as the metaphysical foundations for his practice, Junya Ishigami has developed radical new approaches to architectures both real and utopian. He is consistently credited with forging new paths for a possible architecture of the future.