Speculating on post-modernity,
empowering dialogue,
designing spiritual architecture,
creating places where harmony emerges.
Kensuke Fujishiro is a creator based in the greater Tokyo area. His entire career is one serial work: an inquiry into how individual freedom and the harmony of the whole can coexist, tested through companies, communities, retreats, and architecture.
Prologue
One Serial Work
Everything begins with a 2011 graduation design titled “For the World to Become One Village.” A firm that translates philosophy into places. A community with a built-in expiry date. A family beyond blood ties. Rhythms of daily life. Retreats where harmony emerges. And architecture clothed in prayer. The form keeps changing; the question never has. Each project inherits the learnings of the one before it as its hypothesis.
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Three Practices
PHILOSOPHY
Post-modernityViewing the present from the time scale of human history and the cosmic spatial scale: the adverse effects of modernity, autonomy beyond independence, and the “arrangement for harmony.”
COMMUNITY
Experiments in communityPROTO, the extended family Cift, NESTO, and the Dialogue Retreats — social experiments in communities with dialogue at their center, layered across space, time, and consciousness.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture with spiritualityPost-modern architecture guided by a spiritual rationality that connects to the unseen world: JOMON, TORUS, and the Lake Shikotsu retreat center concept “Reborn.”