Kazuya Katagiri set up his Tokyo studio in 2014 after a spell at Mexico-based Lopez Katagiri Architects. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, he subsequently worked for Kengo Kuma on Dundee’s V&A and the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum, and was a program associate at the University of Tokyo’s Kengo Kuma Laboratory. In among all of this, Katagiri and his collaborator Ayaka Fujii have found time to build a portfolio of works inspired by ‘geometry and materiality’. Katagiri cites the influence of Luis Barragán and cinema as two key points of reference.
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The Arts Club, London, marries Victorian eccentricity and Italian glamour thanks to revampThe Arts Club, London, gets a modern revamp with a nod to styles of the past
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Rebuilt Shigeru Ban houses launch at the architect’s Simose Art Museum in Hiroshima
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