Terunobu Fujimori

Japanese architect and architectural historian

Terunobu Fujimori belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.

The record lists Terunobu Fujimori as Japanese architect and architectural historian.

Terunobu Fujimori was born in 1946. His recorded nationality is Japan. He trained at University of Tokyo and Tohoku University.

Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.

He is recorded as architect, historian and architectural historian.

Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.

Recognition followed: Japan Art Academy Prize.

That the work was built in Japan shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.

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