March 25, 2014

Terunobu Fujimori: Tea Houses

Architectural historian turned celebrated architect Terunobu Fujimori stuns with his designs.

Long-standing and well-respected architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori lived a life steeped in academia until, one day, he received a commission to design a small family museum. It would be his first foray into architectural design, a prospect which made the historian understandably apprehensive. Now, some two decades after that initial design, Fujimori is himself a celebrated architect, renowned for his eccentric and playful creations. In a move away from the minimalism of friends such as Tadao Ando and Toyo Ita, Fujimori toys with nature, creating incredibly characterful spaces. Our favourite Fujimori building stand twenty metres above the ground on a pair of stilts - a testament to his fun and uninhibited vision.