KIYOSHI SEY TAKEYAMA

Kioyshi Sey Takeyama established AMORPHE Takeyama & Associates in 1979 while still a student at the University of Tokyo, simultaneously starting his career as an architect and critic. Winning awards in several major competitions and receiving praise for his keen critiques, he soon became one of the leading architects in Japan. He was selected as a finalist for the 1991 Andrea Palladio International Prize for Architecture.

His works range in scale from furniture to urban design, and his activities are not limited to architecture.

He also expresses his architectural vision through exhibitions and writings. In 1989 a solo exhibition titled “Discontinuous City” was held at Gallery MA, Tokyo. In 1990 he participated in a group exhibition of six young Japanese architects, titled “Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990s,” which travelled from New York to Cambridge, Montreal, Gijon, Barcelona, Madrid, Thessaloniki, and Nicosia. In 1996 he was nominated as the commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Triennale di Milano, for which he designed an exhibition layout that showcased the work of ten Japanese architects, including his own.

In collaboration with the Architecture Network of the Ministry of Culture.