Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects reflects on what gave him a distinctive edge
‘My first work wasn’t architecture; it was furniture. After I graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with an architecture degree in 1998, a friend I’d had since high school asked me to “make something”. He didn’t specify more tha
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