Tsuyoshi Tane house in Tokyo
(Image credit: Yuna Yagi)

Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane founded his eponymous atelier in 2017 and his process of designing begins with an intense research period. He excavates the past to find traces of memory that inform his designs, as evidenced in the Todoroki House in Valley (pictured), which combines various building types shaped by wet and dry environments into a single house. at-ta.fr

Tsuyoshi Tane house in Tokyo

(Image credit: Yuna Yagi)

Tsuyoshi Tane house in Tokyo

(Image credit: TBC)

Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).