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AD Interviews: Sou Fujimoto from ArchDaily on Vimeo.

A while ago I had the chance to meet one of the architects whose work I highly admire: Sou Fujimoto. This Japanese architect based in Tokyo, Japan, established his firm Sou Fujimoto Architects back in 2000. He graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1994, and has been a lecturer at Kyoto University since 2007. With a solid history in residential and cultural projects this firm has consistently shown a unique and innovative play of spatial qualities within its building designs, pushing the limits of housing and space conventions. He defines his architecture under the concept of  Primitive Future  (as seen on his book), better described by himself as “a sort of primitive situation that relates to the human  cave  habitation but at the same time creating something new for the future”. This explains very well his works, specially in his recently completed  library and museum for the Mushashino Art University . On ...