ATELIER BOW WOW

Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based architecture firm founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. The firm is known for its domestic and urban projects. They are known for their investigations into how people occupy space and how we build relationships with one another through space. Their work includes urban analysis and theory, and they have a vast amount of analysis of their home country, Japan, resulting in the development of numerous urban theories. Their built projects are often houses that are often hybrids typologies, work-live studios or homes shared between generations, and often slotted into urban lots, using a layering or winding of overlapped spaces to utilize the vertical proportions.