Shogo Kawata (河田将吾)

Bio

Principal Architect and Founder of teamLab Architects. Born in 1977. Shogo Kawata graduated in Architecture from Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都 工芸繊維大学) in 2003. After graduation, he established his own practice Kawata Architects (河 田建築設計事務所) in 2003 and started collaborating with teamLab the same year. In the year 2009 he established teamLab Architects.

teamLab

A group that makes digital and architecture coexist in an ambiguous manner. By taking digital out of the screen and turning an architectural space into architecture that can be experienced, teamLab Architects designs architecture in which the digital and real coexist ambiguously.

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity. teamLab exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and largescale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht. teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.