TORAFU ARCHITECTS was launched by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro in 2004 when they were hired to renovate the rooms of an old hotel. That project, titled “TEMPLATE IN CLASKA,” integrated architecture and interior design with a design in which holes were made in the walls to hold the hotel fixtures as well as guests’ belongings. This innovative idea, making positive use of small spaces, was enthusiastically received and widely acclaimed.

Today, a decade later, TORAFU ARCHITECTS continues to garner widespread attention in the realms of architecture, design and art for its involvement in diverse projects that transcend the framework of architecture but emanate from the creative ideas of an architect. Suzuno and Kamuro’s projects have ranged from house design and shop interior decoration to the design of exhibition spaces and stage sets and even product design (“airvase,” etc.).

What lies at the base of this tremendous variety of TORAFU ARCHITECTS’ activities is the pair’s flexibly conceived and concretely executed “responses” to simple “questions” about how we live and act. The message they seem to convey is that no matter now small the question, the response has potential to change somebody’s – or everybody’s – world.

This exhibition will be replete with experimentation and playfulness of a kind achievable only by TORAFU ARCHITECTS: two artists who design communication from an architectural approach.