Helping to open people's minds
Architect Sou Fujimoto explains why changing the world is not his intention at all.
WHY do architects do what they do? For some, designing a building could be their way of leaving their mark on society, and in the process change the world.
But not for Sou Fujimoto, the Hokkaido-born, and now Tokyo-based award-winning architect. "My role as an architect is to propose new ways for people to live or behave, in both the private and public realms," he says. "History will decide how society makes use of my proposals."
Mr Fujimoto, 44, was in town recently to lecture on Futures of…
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