Momoyo Kaijima from Atelier Bow-Wow dated 6th Feb at Bartlett School of Architecture , UCL, is a Tokyo-based architecture firm, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momo.
The firm is well known for its domestic and cultural architecture and its research exploring the urban conditions of micro, ad hoc architecture.
Momoyo Kaijima was born in Tokyo in 1969. She received her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women's University in 1991 and both her graduate (M.Eng.) and post-graduate degrees were from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1999. She was also a guest student at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) from 1996-1997.
- "Pet Architecture" is a term Atelier Bow-Wow uses for the buildings that have been squeezed into left over urban spaces. Buildings with curious shapes and inventive solutions for windows, drainage, and air-conditioning often arise in these urban situation.
- Behaviorology is the study of functional relationships between ‘behaviour’ and its many independent variables in the determining environment.
Micro Public Spaces are devices proposed by Atelier Bow-Wow which create social platforms.Da-me Architecture" (no-good architecture) is a term coined by Atelier Bow Wow, to describe the buildings in Tokyo which prioritizes a "stubbornly honest" response to specific site conditions and program requirements, without insisting on architectural aesthetic and form
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