Takefumi Aida

He is known for his building block house series and layered memorials, which represented a break from then-current Japanese Metabolist philosophies..

In 1966, he completed a doctoral course at Waseda University Graduate School.

In 1977, he became a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology and changed the name to Takefumi Aida Design Laboratory.

Aida was a founding member of ArchiteXt, a group of architects formed in 1971 that disputed modern architecture's guiding relationships between form and function, specifically opposing the Japanese Metabolist movement.

[1] Aida explored form with his Toy Block Houses in Yokyo and Hofu, and moved do explorations of layered spaces in later work.