Hachinohe Art Museum

NISHIZAWA Tezzo

Born in 1974 in Kyoto, NISHIZAWA Tezzo received his master’s degree from the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He then worked for Jun Aoki & Associates, where he was in charge of projects that included the Louis Vuitton Ginza Matsuya store and the Aomori Museum of Art. He established Tezzo Nishizawa Architects in 2007. His major works include a redesign of the collection gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo （2012） and the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art （2019）. Nishizawa has also designed many exhibition spaces, including Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers （2014） and Re: play 1972/2015 – Restaging “Expression in Film ’72” （2015） at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Kon Wajiro Retrospective （2009, Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art）, and Syncopation: Contemporary Encounters with the Modern Masters （2019, Pola Museum of Art）. His awards include the 2020 Kyoto Architecture Award, the 30th AACA Award, the 62nd Mainichi Arts Award, the JIA Grand Prix 2020, the AIJ Prize 2021 [Architectural Design Division], and the Japan Federation of Architects and Building Engineers Associations Architecture Award 2021.

ASACO Yoshihide

ASACO Yoshihide is an architect and editor born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, in 1972. He established Takaban Studio in 2007 and founded Contectures （now Genron） with AZUMA Hiroki in 2010 before leaving the company in 2012. In 2021, he added a publishing arm to establish a new company, PRINT AND BUILD, and released the company’s inaugural book, Design Today: Contemporary Design Interviews, written by TSUCHIDA Takahiro. His architectural works include gray （2015）, and his essays include “Interior Design of Comme des Garçons,” featured in Shiso Chizu Beta Vol. 1 （2010）. He is also the co-author of What Rem Koolhaas Changed （2014）. Asaco specializes in urban research and design through the lens of commercial spaces, and he has supervised the planning of “Tokyo Interior Tour,” a study of urban storefronts, “Tokyo Design Ten,” an exhibition that looked at Tokyo in 10 years’ time from the viewpoint of design, and “The Future of Public Toilets,” an ongoing study of public spaces （2017 to present）.

MORI Junpei

Born in 1985 in Malaysia, MORI Junpei received his master’s degree from the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.He has been considering time from an architectural perspective since he was a student and continues to pioneer projects that facilitate new stage designs, exhibitions, and community development. Since 2013, he has been based in Matsudo, Chiba, where he established the artist-in-residence PARADISE AIR to welcome artists from around the world to live and work in the city. He has worked with Tono Off Campus since 2015 and has served as an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts since 2017. He also serves as a designer and director at the Learning Center VIVA （since 2019）.