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Momoyo Kaijima is a Japanese architect, and Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba.

Educated at the Japan Women’s University and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kaijima taught architecture at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Rice University.

Early Life and Education
Momoyo Kaijima grew up in Tokyo, Japan and was interested in houses at from young age. Kaijima was not influenced by anything in particular, however she had many opportunities to visit different houses.

Kaijima graduated from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women’s University in 1991. In 1999, she completed her post-graduate degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Career
In 1992, Kaijima founded Atelier Bow-wow alongside her partner Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Atelier Bow-wow is known for its “Pet Architecture”, buildings that have been squeezed into leftover urban spaces and Behaviorology, the study of functional relationships between ‘behavior’ and its many independent variables in determining environment. In 2000, she began teaching at the University of Tsukuba. She is visiting faculty at Harvard GSD and is a guest professor at ETH Zurich, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Rice University.

Recognition
Kaijima received the RIBA International Fellowship in 2012.

In 2018, Kaijima curated the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018.

In 2022, Momoyo Kaijima was awarded the Wolf Prize Laureate for Architecture.