Originally published in Port Magazine issue 28, and online at port-magazine.com
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Upon graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1994, Sou Fujimoto spent six years doing next to nothing. “I didn’t have any projects or tasks, so it was fully empty time for me,” he explains via video call from his home in Tokyo. Seen from the perspective of just under a year with the relative emptiness of life under lockdowns, the idea of a six-year void seems maddening. But Fujimoto assures me otherwise: “It was quite precious for me to be alone and spend a lot of time thinking about fundamental questions in architecture. Now, it’s a pity, but I couldn’t have that kind of time. Maybe I should try to make it for myself.”
Indeed, these days he can afford no such luxury…
Originally published in Port Magazine issue 28, and online at port-magazine.com
George Kafka 