Yuusuke Karasawa

Born in Tokyo in 1976. Architect.President of Yuusuke Karasawa Architects. Graduated with an MA in Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University in 2001. Worked at MVRDV as a trainee for the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists from 2002 to 2003 and worked at Shigeru Ban Architects from 2004 to 2005. Established Yuusuke Karasawa Architects in 2006. He studies architecture and urban space generated by using algorithmic methods and thinking. He was in charge of the chief editor of the special issue “Algorithmic thinking and architecture” on “10+1” magazine vol.48 (INAX publishing,2007). He won the D&AD Awards (England) Spatial Design Category in 2011. He showed his works on the exhibition “The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945” (MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Barbican Centre, The National Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo 2016-2017),” Japan-ness, Architecture and urbanism in Japan since 1945”(Centre Pompidou-Metz 2017-2018). The model of “s-house” is collected by Centre Pompidou as a collection.