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Maki Onishi was born in 1983 in Japan. In 2006 she graduated from the Kyoto University and in 2008 she completed her master’s degree at the University of Tokyo. Between 2011 and 2013 she worked as design assistant at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture.

Yuki Hyakuda was born in 1982 in Japan. In 2006 he graduated from the Kyoto University, where he completed in 2008 his master’s degree.

In 2008 Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda founded onishimaki + hyakudayuki architects. Their works include the weekend house in Sengataki in 2006, the “kemono” installation in Tokyo in 2008, the ground folly in Fukuoka in 2009, the “cave in a dream” installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo in 2009-10, the “double-helix” house in Tokyo and the “seeing itself” exhibition design by Takashi Homma in Tokyo in 2011, the “home-for all” for children in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi, and the Satoumi station in Miyagi in 2013.

They received several awards such as the Shelter Students’ Competition Grand Prix in 2005 and 2006, the Highest Award for the Graduation Design from the Kyoto University, the Island City Folly Workshop Grand Prix, the JT Smokers’ Style Competition in 2006, the Kashima Award from the SD Review in 2007, the SUS Aluminium Award for under 30 architects Grand Prix in 2010, the Best Debutant of the Year 2011, the Shinkenchiku Award and the Asakura Award in 2012.