architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

who was born in

Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,000, ...

. He graduated from

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's department of architecture in 2001. He is most known for his Zero Yen Project, which involves studying structures built at no cost, such as shanties made by the homeless. The Zero Yen Project involved building dwellings after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns following the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the Tohuku region. In response to the disaster he created a suicide help line using his personal cell phone. Later he studied provisional dwellings made from scrap wood, discarded cardboard boxes and other scavenged materials. In 2004 is photographic book ''Zero Yen House'' was published. In 2013 his book, ''Build Your Own Independent Nation'' was published. In 2014, he wrote a novel, ''Genjitsu Dasshutsuron (Thesis on Escaping Reality)''. In 2020 his book ''Kurushii Toki wa Denwa Shite (Call Me When You're in Pain)'' was published. Sakaguchi's work has been exhibited at the

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, the Trax Gallery in Yamanashi Prefecture, the

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, as well as exhibitions in Nairobi, Berkeley, California, Philadelphia, Tokyo, the Walter Phillips Gallery at Banff Centre, Canada,Museo Desafinado / Casa Endeble in Mexico City, among other international venues

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0yenhouse.com
Sakaguchi's website Japanese architects 1978 births Living people {{Japan-artist-stub

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