Since the year 2000, Wataru Hasegawa has worked on more than a hundred projects including total home constructions, innovative renovations, and commercial buildings all over Japan. Well known as a star architect, Hasegawa works to push the boundaries of Japanese architectural concepts, with projects all across Japan that transform older structures into modern innovations of space, and form, while maintaining the feel and ethos of the original historical structure.
Member of Japan Association of Architectural Firms
Member of Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)
This summer our editor, Michael Lambe, sat down in a Kyoto cafe with Kaz Shigemitsu the founder of ZenVita. They talked about his background, about his company's mission to promote Japanese architects and designers overseas, and about his future plans for ZenVita.
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