Jun Aoki & Associates

Having graduated from Tokyo University Jun Aoki worked at Arata Isozaki & Associates before establishing his own Tokyo-based practice in 1991 to do ‘anything that seemed interesting’. Subsequent works have included diverse directions such as a series of houses, public architecture, and fashion boutiques as a current series of Louis Vuitton stores. A swimming pool at Yusuikan (1993) that investigat

es some of the themes of the more recent project, Fukushima Lagoon Museum (1997) which won the Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Award, and the Aomori Museum of Art, the Grand Award of the international competition, is completed in July 2006. His works has been featured in Kenchiku-Bunka November 1999 from Shokoku-sha (recently reprinted edition was published), and the catalogue of his solo-exhibition Atmospherics (2000 / TOTO publisher). Two monographs Jun Aoki Complete Works 1: 1991-2004 (2004), and Jun Aoki complete Works 2: Aomori Museum of Art (2006 / INAX shuppan) were already published. His major texts are collected in Harappa to Yuuenchi (vacant lot and amusement ground).