Kikuma Watanabe+D Environmental Design System Laboratory

Watanabe has created unique architecture together with local residents in such locations as Jordan, Uganda, and Thailand by blending earthbag architecture with local traditional construction methods, contributing in this way to the alleviation of poverty in these regions.
Watanabe is pursuing something he calls “Architecture with Universal Locality”, this being architecture that considers the space for human between Mother Earth and Father Sky. Currently, while teaching as an associate professor at Kochi University of Technology, Watanabe is engaged in research and fieldwork in various regions, aimed at returning to architectureʼs beginnings to discover architecture of a different dimension.