Richard Rogers + Yuri Suzuki

ABOUT
Yuri Suzuki

Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician. His practice explores the realms of sound through designed pieces that examine the relationship between people and their environments – questioning how both music and sound evolve to create personal experiences.

Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. After studying Industrial Design he worked with Maywa Denki, the Japanese electronic art unit. During this period, Yuri began exploring the relationship between music and technology. In 2005 he moved to London to study product design at the Royal College of Art, where he further developed his interest in the crossovers between art, design, and music, using both analogue and digital technologies to explore this.

Central to Suzuki's practice is collaboration – he has worked with various musicians, including will.i.am and Jeff Mills, as well as commercial clients such as Google, with whom he developed a unique AR Music Kit. 

His work can be seen in several international museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has had both solo and group exhibitions at the Tate Britain London, Mudam Luxembourg, MoMA and the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. In 2016, he received the Designer of the Future award at Design Miami.

In 2018 Suzuki was appointed a partner at Pentagram, the world’s largest independently owned design studio, where he began working as an artist in the London studio. Suzuki and his team work internationally, pushing the boundaries between art, design, technology and sound, crossing the fields of both low and high technology.

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ABOUT
Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985, and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture, the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) and the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. He was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991, and made a life peer in 1996. Most recently in 2008 he was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

In 1995, he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a series entitled ‘Cities for a Small Planet’ – and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government’s Urban Task Force on the state of our cities. He was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and has played an advisory role on design to the previous Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. He has also been an Advisor to the Mayor of Barcelona’s Urban Strategies Council.

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