Jo Nagasaka is the Tokyo architect who made “as found” a method. Rather than the clean slate, he keeps and exposes a building’s existing structure, its scars, its layers, handling cheap industrial stock like concrete, plaster and pipework with real precision. Moving freely across shops, cafes, bathhouses and houses, Schemata Architects reshaped how a generation thinks about renovation. A growing collection.
Jo Nagasaka reads a building’s scars, pipework and old floors as raw material, and keeps them.