23rd Annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture

Junya Ishigami

After completing a master's program at the Department of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts, he founded junya.ishigami+associates in 2004, having previously worked at Kazuyo Sejima & Associates.

Some of his notable works include the Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop / KAIT Plaza, the Park Groot Vijversburg Visitor Center, MIZUNIWA, the Serpentine Pavilion 2019, House & Restaurant, and the Zaishui Art Museum.

Junya Ishigami has been honored with prestigious awards, including the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (2009), the Golden Lion award for the best project at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2010), the Mainichi Design Award (2010), the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (of fine arts), the OBEL Award by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation (2019), the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts (2024) and the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize (2024). He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (2025) and received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize (2026).

Thursday, 23 July 2026 
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo 07
Admission is free, but spaces are limited
Register here: https://junya-ishigami.eventbrite.com

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Past Lectures

2025 Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena

2024 Anupama Kundoo

2023 Isabella Ono

2022 Tatiana Bilbao

2021 Sumayya Vally

2020 Marina Tabassum

2019 Kengo Kuma

2018 Abdel Wahed El Wakil

2017 Abha Lambah

2016 Kasef Chowdhry

2015 Yang Zhao

2014 Juan Pablo Serrano & J. Francisco Serrano

2013 Kate Otten

2012 Bijoy Jain

2011 Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassel

2010 Cecil Balmond

2009 Mok Wei Wei

2008 Gary Chang

2007 Kerry Hill

2006 Rahul Mehrotra

2005 David Robson

2004 Senake Bandaranayake