Inui Architects

Architect Kumiko Inui has been working as an independent architect for almost 20 years. This book features an unparalleled number of her works with abundant photos, drawings, and careful interpretations of the architect's thoughts.
Her debut as an architect was followed by her striking commercial architectural designs, such as Louis Vuitton and Dior. She then has worked on a diverse array of designs in terms of scale and purposes, including small private houses, renovation of machiya (traditional Japanese townhouses) in Kyoto, buildings for public services in urban centers, reconstruction of a school hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and re-development around a station in a local city in Kyushu. While confronting challenging real-life situations in each project, Inui has always pursued a new type of architecture and acquired its universal strength. Many photos in this book, including the ones taken exclusively for the book, directly tell the readers how her buildings--fruits of the architect's thoughts--are lived in by people in reality.
The book includes a bilingual article "Little Spaces and Architecture" by Kumiko Inui and abundant information on her works and bibliographic data at the end. Photos by Takeshi Yamagishi, Daici Ano, and others. Book design by Atsuki Kikuchi. In English and Japanese.

-Kumiko Inui
Architect. Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1969. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, and completing the Master Course, Yale School of Architecture, Inui worked at Jun Aoki and Associates. She established Inui Architects (formerly Office of Kumiko Inui) in 2000. She was an associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture from 2011 to 2016. From 2016, she has been a professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture. The English name of her office changed from Office of Kumiko Inui to Inui Architects, on the occasion of the publishing of this book.