Sou Fujimoto at Design Indaba Conference 2016

Architecture & Interiors/2016/24 min/Reel № 16.001

BySou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto on multi-layered and conceptual architecture

Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Sou Fujimoto takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Japan in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Sou's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s philosophical body of work explores architecture that doesn’t dictate any particular behaviour to its users.

Sou Fujimoto. Photo: David Vintiner

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Sou Fujimoto

Tokyo/Japan

Philosophical architect Sou Fujimoto blurs the lines between the public and the private in his thought-provoking work.