Interview: Koji Tsutsui
Koji Tsutsui discusses his work and 2012 League Prize exhibition.
September 22, 2012
Recorded on June 20, 2012.
The Architectural League Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas.
Koji Tsutsui founded his eponymous firm in Tokyo in 2004. He opened an office in San Francisco in 2010.
The office’s InBetween house received a 2011 World Architecture Festival Award in the villa category and was named to Architectural Record‘s Record Houses. The office was also part of Architectural Record‘s Design Vanguard in 2011. In 2009, the office’s Annular Orphanage was a finalist for the Global Holcim Award.
Tsutsui received his BArch from the University of Tokyo and his MArch from The Bartlett School at University College London.
In this video, he discusses his work and his installation for the League Prize 2012 exhibition at Parsons The New School for Design.
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