Beyond the boundaries between architecture, design and art is where you can meet Kana Arioka. She obtained a degree in engineering in Tokyo and in architecture in Venice before moving to Brussels in 2011. She has worked as an architect for Atelier Bow-Wow in Japan and for 51N4E in Belgium. For architecten de vylder vinck taillieu she has worked as an architect and curator for exhibitions in TOTO Gallery・MA Tokyo and VAi/deSingel Antwerp. 

 

A side of her own practice in architecture, she established her alter ego in 2022 where she can explore her interest on the house not as a dwelling container, but a complex text in which human time and space are woven into. With free enthusiastic unconditioned act, her work unearths the ideas and imaginations of humanity that converge in the ‘house’ and the space that unfolds here is not about the materially enclosed space, but space as a chain of memories shaped by a dialogue with the body.

 

Kana recently taught at Chiba University in Japan and AAP Cornell University in U.S., and is currently engaged as docent for master design studios at department of architecture in KU Leuven / St.Lucas and at department of interior architecture in U Hasselt in Belgium. 

 

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