Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect born in 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan. After completing his master’s studies in architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1979, he started working for a period at Nihon Sekkei and TODA Corporation. In 1987, he founded the Spatial Design Studio, and in 1990,  his studio was established: Kengo Kuma & Associates.

He is one of the most significant contemporary Japanese architects and professors at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo.