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Feb 2024
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99: Takero Shimazaki

The Architecture Foundation
About this episode

Takero Shimazaki is director of the London-based practice t–sa, which he co-founded with Julie Toh in 1996.


You can’t control everything as an architect. You can’t dictate everything – that’s not the point. Instead it’s quite exciting to be liberating, to let things be in a way. There are discrepancies between the ideal architecture of imagination and the reality of tolerance and conflict; in these kinds of chaotic and raw

situations, how does architecture survive?


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