Junya Ishigami is an architect and the founder of junya.ishigami+associates, an international architecture practice based in Tokyo. Before establishing the office in 2004, Ishigami worked for four years with Kazuyo Sejima at her Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA. In 2009, Junya became the youngest recipient of the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop, earning his practice international recognition. He designed the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and received the Golden Lion for best project at the Biennale in 2010. In 2024, Junya received the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. His firm’s recent projects include the Zaishui Art Museum in China (2023), an underground house and restaurant for Japanese chef Motonori Hirata in Ube, Japan (2022), and the KAIT Plaza (2021), which sits beside the workshop it designed for the same institution.