Since starting out in 1996, Keiji Ashizawa has become one of Japan’s leading contemporary architects. In 2005 he founded his own studio, Keiji Ashizawa Design, and in 2011 helped found Ishinomaki Laboratory with the goal of supporting the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake In this episode, Ashizawa sits down with Suzy Annetta for a conversation about the way he thinks, lives and works.

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