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post updated 21 Apr 2021

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BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin, Germany
Date built: 2012

photo : Christian Richters © 2012 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Atelier Bow-Wow design – BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to announce that the BMW Guggenheim Lab will open in the Pfefferberg complex, in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. The BMW Guggenheim Lab – a temporary public space and online forum encouraging open dialogue about issues related to urban living.

BMW Guggenheim Lab – Cycle 1, New York, USA
Date built: 2011

photo : courtesy Atelier Bow-Wow
BMW Guggenheim Lab
Over the six-year migration of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, there will be three different themes and three distinct mobile structures, each designed by a different architect and each traveling to three cities around the world. The inaugural BMW Guggenheim Lab was located in Manhattan. Designed by Atelier Bow-Wow, an architecture studio in Tokyo, the mobile structure, a compact temporary facility of approximately 2,500 square feet, will easily fit into densely built neighborhoods and be transported from city to city.

Atelier Bow-Wow – Key Projects

Major Projects by Atelier Bow-Wow, chronological, all in Japan:

Sway House
2008

House Crane
2007

Nora House
2006

Mado Building
2006

House & Atelier Bow-Wow
2005

Juicy House – housing
2005

Takahashi Clinic
2004

House, Izu Peninusla
2004

Jig
2003

Shallow House
2002

House Saiko
2001

Moth House
2000

Mini House
1999

Hasune World Apartment
1995

More Atelier Bow-Wow projects

online very soon

Location: 8-79 Suga-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0018, Japan

Tokyo Architects Practice Information

Atelier Bow-Wow
Architect office based in Tokyo

Tokyo Architects

Bow-Wow studio established in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in Tokyo

Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo)
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow:

photo © Atelier Bow-Wow

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
(1965-)
born in Kanagawa, Japan

Education:
Tokyo Institute of Technology
1987
L’ecole d’architecture, Paris
1988
Tokyo Institute of Technology – Post-Graduate School
1994

Teaching:
Associate Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000-
Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2003, 2007
Visiting Associate Professor of UCLA
2007, 2008

Momoyo Kaijima
(1969)
born in Tokyo, Japan

Education:
Japan Women’s University
1991
Tokyo Institute of Technology – Graduate school
1994
E.T.H.
1997
Tokyo Institute of Technology – Post-Graduate School
1999

Teaching:
University of Tsukuba – Assistant professor
2000-
Visiting Faculty of Harvard GSD
2003
E.T.H.Z. – Guest Professor
2005-07

Atelier Bow-Wow was established in Tokyo in 1992 by the husband-and-wife team of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Best known for its surprising, idiosyncratic, yet highly usable residential projects in dense urban environments, the architecture firm has developed its practice based on a profound and unprejudiced study of existing cultural, economic, and environmental conditions—a study that led it to propose the term “pet architecture” for the multitude of odd, ungainly, but functional little buildings wedged into tiny sites around Tokyo.

This Tokyo architectural practice has also acquired an enthusiastic following through its Micro Public Space projects, as well as innovative projects for exhibitions such as the 2010 Venice Biennale (as an official representative of Japan) and the São Paulo Bienal, and at venues such as the Hayward Gallery in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, The Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Japan Society in New York, and the OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich in Linz, Austria.

Website: www.bow-wow.jp