Architect Suzuki Ryoji was born in Sendai in 1944 and raised in Tokyo, where he currently resides. He graduated from the Department of architecture, the Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, where he is an honorary fellow and professor emeritus. After working in the design division of the Takenaka Corporation and at Maki and Associates, in 1977 he graduated from the Waseda University Graduate School and established the Fromnow Architectural Planning Office, renamed in 1983 as Ryoji Suzuki Architect and Partners. He numbers his works as “material trials ” and develops creative activities not bound by genre, crossing over fields such as architecture, film, installations, writing, and photography. He has had recent exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2010), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2014), and the Fourth and Ninth Yebisu International Festivals for Art & Alternative Visions (2012, 2017). His books include Architectural Film: Material Suspense (2013, LIXIL Publishing), Lyingdown Architecture (2014, Misuzu Shobo), and Sequence to Utopia (2017, LIXIL Publishing).