Fumi Kashimura & Ikko Kobayashi

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Terrain Architects

Japan
terrain-arch.com

Biography

Ikko Kobayashi and Fumi Kashimura co-founded Terrain Architects in 2011 in Tokyo. The two co-founders began their partnership with a project in Cirebon, Indonesia. Terrain Architects is dedicated to providing indigenous design solutions using local skills and materials in

order to fit into local climate, culture and communities. Kobayashi and Kashimura establish a fifty-fifty relationship with the local communities they work with, knowing the community’s expertise can help find and add value to the project they are working on.