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K2S architects
Finnish design studio K2S was founded in 2001 by partners Kimmo Lintula, Niko Sirola and Mikko Summanen, currently lecturers at Aalto University, Helsinki. The practice’s areas of work range from town planning and design of new buildings and refurbishments, in addition to installations, exhibition projects, graphics and interior design. The design studio has won many prestigious competitions in their home country. Their philosophy focuses on defining space for human ....
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Sou Fujimoto
One of today’s best-known Japanese architects, Sou Fujimoto (1971) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1994. The majority of his work (initially projects for small spaces) is located in Japan, where he founded Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. He gained recognition some years later, when he won the Architectural Review award for emerging architecture 3 years in a row. Fujimoto lectures at the Universities of ....
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b720 Fermin Vazquez Arquitectos
Spanish architect and town planner, Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa (1961) studied at ETSAM (Superior Technical School of Architecture, Madrid) and subsequently the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). He gained recognition with b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos founded in 1997 with Ana Bassat (720 is the number assigned to the discipline of architecture in the Dewey Decimal Classification system). The studio now has thirty professionals including ....