Katagiri Architecture and Design

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Kazuya Katagiri set up his Tokyo studio in 2014 after a spell at Mexico-based Lopez Katagiri Architects. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, he subsequently worked for Kengo Kuma on Dundee’s V&A and the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum, and was a program associate at the University of Tokyo’s Kengo Kuma Laboratory. In among all of this, Katagiri and his collaborator Ayaka Fujii have found time to build a portfolio of works inspired by ‘geometry and materiality’. Katagiri cites the influence of Luis Barragán and cinema as two key points of reference.
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).