WHAT IS ARCHITABI?
We offer consultancy and research on architecture, design and urban development. We are committed to introducing international architects and designers to Japan and to helping promote Japanese creators overseas. Our services extend to planning and organising research trips, curating exhibitions and coordinating photoshoots for commercial advertising.
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MEGUMI YAMASHITA
Born in Yokohama, Megumi spent her childhood in India with her father, a broadcast journalist. She graduated with a degree in history at university, with the aim of becoming an archaeologist. However, after working in design industry and she thought, “I’d rather make a new world than dig up an old one.” On her travels to America and Europe, she was struck by the quality of the design, art, and museums, and she decided to study at an art college in the UK, and subsequently completed an MA in museum studies at UCL.
She took root in London, and began writing about the latest architecture and design in Europe, in the Japanese lifestyle magazine called 'Casa Brutus'. Since then, she has gone on to contribute articles to many Japanese and international publications for more than 20 years.
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Interviewed architecture/ artist
Architects
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Japan
Jun Aoki
Tadao Ando
Junya Ishigami
Arata Isozaki　
Toyo Itoh
Kengo Kuma
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Yasuhiro Suzuki　
Tsuyoshi Tane
Itsuko Hasegawa　
Kenya Hara　
Shigeru Ban
Naoto Fukasawa
So Fujimoto
Terunobu Fujimori
Yasumichi Morita
UK
David Adjaye　
Assemble　
Ron Arad
Paul Williams（Stanton Williams）
Asif Khan
Peter Cook（Archigram）　
David Kohn　
Peter St John（Caruso St John）　
David Chipperfield　
Zaha Hadid　
Kathryn Findlay　
Thomas Heatherwick　
John Pawson　
Farshid Moussav　
Richard Rogers
Switzerland
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron　
Peter Zumthor
America
Frank Gehry
Designers
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Tomoko Azumi　
Kenneth Grange　
Jasper Conran　
Terence Conran　
Paul Smith　
James Dyson
Marc Newson　
Margaret Howell　
Barber Osgerby　
Jonathan Barnbrook　
Sam Hecht　
Jasper Morrison　
Ross Lovegrove
Axel Kufus
Konstantin Grcic
Dieter Rams
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Artists
Anish Kapoor　
Anthony Gormley
Jennifer lee
Damian Hirst
Anselm Kiefer