2024-11-05
6 分钟Each week we welcome one of the jury chairs of the Holcim Foundation Awards – the world’s premier competition for sustainable design – to hear their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet and building thriving communities. In the fifth and final episode we sit down with the Japanese architect and founder of his eponymous studio, Sou Fujimoto. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the fifth and final in a special series of tall stories brought to you by the Hulsam Foundation Awards, the world's premier competition for sustainable design, highlighting projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.
In each episode, we welcome one of the jury chairs, explore their views on creating uplifting places, fostering a healthy planet, developing viable economics and building thriving communities.
We ask them how their careers began, the pillars of their practice, and what their hopes are for the future of the industry.
This week we speak with the Japanese architect and founder of his eponymous studio, Tsu Fujimoto.
From my childhood days, I really loved making things.
But when I was a kid, I didn't notice that the architecture design was making things.
And then when I was 14 years old, I found a book in my father's bookshelves about Antonio Gaudi.
And I was really impressed.
And I understood that the architecture design is also a really creative thing.
I was more interested in physics.
My hero was Albert Einstein.
It's not the physical things, but thinking about new theory or framework.
It was also like really creative thinking.
And I was really fascinated by that.
Then finally when I got into the university, I realized my brain power is not high enough to do physics.
It was an accident finally to choose the architecture design.
But of course it was very exciting for me.
It was like for me the same sensation as Albert Einstein, like a revolutionary thinking.
After I was graduated from university, I really loved to be an architect, but I didn't know how.