Atelier Bow-Wow

Atelier Bow-wow is an architectural design office established by Yoshiharu

Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in 1992 in Tokyo.

URL: www.bow-wow.jp/index.html


Yoshiharu Tsukamoto: b.1965 in Kanagawa, Japan

2003 Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD

1994 Associate professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, DR Eng.

        Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology

1987-88 Guest student of l’Ecole d’Architecture, Paris, Belville (U.P.8)

1987 Graduate from Tokyo Institute of Technology


Momoyo Kaijima: b.1969 in Tokyo

2005-07 Guest Professor at ETH Zurich

2003 Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD

1999 Assistant professor of Tsukuba University, MA Eng.

Graduate from Post-graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology

1996-97 Guest student at ETH Zurich

1994 Graduate from Graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology

1991 Graduate from Japan Women's University



Selected Exhibitions (after 2000)

2009 ‘Atelier Bow-Wow, Small Case Study House’ Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2008 ‘Kanazawa Art Platform 2008’ Kanazawa, Japan

        ‘Psycho Buildings’ The Hayward, London, UK

2007 ‘Dog Chair’ Art-U room, Tokyo

        ‘Atelier Bow-Wow: Practice of Lively Space’ Gallery MA, Tokyo

2006 The 27th São Paulo Art Biennale, Brasil

        Bussan Biennale 2006, Korea

        ‘Dynamicity’ Nai Rotterdam, The Netherlands

        ‘Berlin-Tokyo’ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

2005 The 3rd Osaka Art Kaleidoscope, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka

        ‘Snoopy Life Design’ Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

        Taiwan Design Expo 2005, Taiwan

        Yokohama Triennale 2005, Yokohama, Japan

        ‘Extreme Eurasia’ Spiral Hall, Tokyo

2004 ‘Manga Pod’ Art-U room, Tokyo

        ‘How to use the city’ Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka

        ‘Café in Mito’ Ibaraki, Japan

        ‘Roppongi Crossing’ Mori Art Center, Tokyo

2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2003, Niigata, Japan

        The 50th Venice Biennale, Italy

        ‘How Latitude becomes Form’ Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

2002 ‘Under construction’ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

        Shanghai Biennale 2002, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

        ‘Architecture of Tomorrow’ Gallery MA, Tokyo

        ‘Small is OK’ Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland

        ‘Archilab 2002’ Antwerp, Belgium / Orleans, France

        ‘Made in Tokyo in Oslo’ Gallery ROM, Oslo

        The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

        The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2001 ‘Les Plus Petites Maisons per Atelier Bow-Wow’ IFA, Paris

        Yokohama Triennale 2001, Yokohama, Japan

        ‘Japanese Avant-Garde: Reality Projection’ RIBA, London

        ‘My Home is Yours. Your Home is Mine’ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2000 ‘Towards Totalscape’ Nai Rotterdam, The Netherlands

        ‘Minihauser in Japan’ Munich

        ‘Pet Architecture’ Gallery MA, Tokyo