Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

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Robert Greenwood
Architect / United Kingdom
Yumi Kori
Architect / Japan
Fumio Nanjo
Director of Mori Art Museum / Japan
Educated in the UK, Robert joined Snøhetta
in 1993 to play a central role in the design
and construction of the Alexandra Library
in Egypt. In 2006 he became a Partner and
Design Director at Snøhetta and from 2011,
he has been Managing Director for Snøhetta,
with responsibility for international projects.
Currently these include the Opera houses
in Shanghai and Busan, the Qasr al Hokum
metro station in Riyadh, the Head Quarters
for the Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut and
the King Abdullaziz Centre for World Culture
in Dhahran. Robert is active in Architectural
Education, teaching at the schools in Norway,
and holding numerous lectures and courses
around the world.
Yumi Kori is a Japanese-born architect and
artist based in Tokyo. Kori majored in architecture
at Kyoto Prefectural University where
she graduated in 1983. Seven years later, she
set up her Studio MYU Architects in Tokyo.
She then moved to New York to continue
studying architecture at the Graduate School
of Columbia University and graduated with
MA in 1995. From 1996 to 2004, she taught
at Columbia and Barnard College as Adjunct
Assistant Professor. She also lectured at numerous
universities including Yale University,
Parsons the New School for Design, Tokyo
University of Science, and University of
Brasilia. Since 2016, she has been active as
full Professor at Osaka Institute of Technology.
While teaching, she has designed many
architecture projects in Japan, including residential
projects and facilities for senior people
that aim to create comfortable spaces for its
inhabitants. She has also designed innovative
renovation projects of historical buildings that
connect memory and space.
Fumio Nanjo graduated from Keio University
in the Faculty of Economics and Letters. He
has organised numerous exhibitions as an
officer of the Japan Foundation (1978-1986),
as the director of ICA NAGOYA (1986-1990),
and as the founder and Director of Nanjo and
Associates. He has served as commissioner
of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
(1997), commissioner at the Taipei Biennale
(1998), the artistic director of the Singapore
Biennale (2006 & 2008), and the curatorial director
of the Honolulu Biennale (2017). Nanjo
is currently the Director of Mori Art Museum
in Tokyo, a position he has held since 2006.
The Mori Art Museum is one of Japan’s most
iconic and critically acclaimed contemporary
art museums, focusing on various original
exhibitions and works of Asian artists.
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