Junya Ishigami

Born in 1974 in Kanagawa prefecture (Japan).

Junya Ishigami is a Japanese architect who graduated in architecture and planning at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000. He is concerned with lightness and seeks to link architecture with engineering, form and technology in his work.

Ishigami worked with Kazuyo Sejima from 2000 to 2004 at SANAA, before establishing his own firm in 2004: junya.ishigami+associates. Ishigami showed solo in the Japanese pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008; and was the youngest ever recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop in 2009. In 2010 he won the Golden Lion for Best Project at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the same year he became an Associate Professor at Tohoku University in Japan.