Jun'ya Ishigami (石上 純也, Ishigami Jun'ya) (born 1974 in Kanagawa prefecture) is a Japanese architect.[1]
Jun'ya Ishigami | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Kanagawa prefecture, Japan |
| Alma mater | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Architectural Institute of Japan Prize |
| Practice | junya.ishigami+associates |
| Buildings | Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop |
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
edit- 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]
References
edit- ^ a b "The Japan Architect nr.70". Archived from the original on 30 August 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Contal, Marie-Hélène; Revedin, Jana (October 2011). Sustainable design II, Towards a new ethics for architecture and the city. Paris: Actes Sud. ISBN 978-2-330-00085-1.
- ^ "Global Award for Sustainable Architecture". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ https://www.kiesler.org/en/kiesler-prize-2024-2. kiesler.org. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- ^ "Junya Ishigami awarded Frederick Kiesler Prize – Announcements – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ Robertson, James (29 July 2014). "George Street sculpture revealed in $9m public art spending spree". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Serpentine Pavilion 2019 by Junya Ishigami". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Zaishui Art Museum / junya ishigami + associates". ArchDaily. 1 February 2024.
External links
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- 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)