Who is Junya Ishigami" Here's a look at seven significant projects by the Japanese architect, who has just been announced as designer of the Serpentine Pavilion 2019.
Born in 1974 in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, Ishigami completed his master's degree in architecture and planning at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 2000.
The architect founded Junya Ishigami + Associates in 2006, after four years working at SANAA.
He started attracting international attention just a couple of years later ? he became the youngest recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for his glass-walled KAIT studio, and he won the Golden Lion for best project at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010.
Ishigami's design for the 19th Serpentine Pavilion features a huge slate roof rising up out of the landscape. It will likely be unveiled in June 2019. Read on for details of Ishigami's most significant projects:

Photo is by Edmund Sumner
KAIT Workshop, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan, 2008
Ishigami designed the Kanagawa Institute of Technology's KAIT Workshop to be flexible for both students and the public.
Visible behind its glass walls are more than 300 steel columns that differ in size, reminiscent of trees in a forest.
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Japanese Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy, 2008
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