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Architect. 1969 Born in Tokyo. 1991 Momoyo Kaijima graduated from Department of Housing, Faculty of Home Economics, Japan Women’s University. In 1992 Momoyo Kaijima established the Atelier Bow-wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. 1994 she completed the Master Course of Architecture, Tokyo Institute of Technology, from 1996-97 she studied at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. Completing her Doctor Course in 2000 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, she taught from 2000-2009 as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba, from 2009-2022 as an associate professor.
Momoyo Kaijima taught also as a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014-15), Delft University of Technology (2015-16), Columbia University (2017) and Yale School of Architecture(2023) and currently at The Rothwell Co-Chairs 2024-2026.
In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship. She was the curator of Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. 2022 she received the Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture. From 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ and from 2024 president of NPO Cheer Art.
Institut für Architektur und Entwerfen