佐藤航／WATARU ARCHITECTS 代表／建築家。1979年、神奈川県生まれ。2003年、東京工業大学大学院卒およびコクヨ入社。2018年、クリエイティブデザイン部部長に着任。WORKからLIFEへ、スケール横断の2つに着目し、コクヨのデザイン領域拡張を推進。 2023年5月に次のステージで社会の流れや価値観の変化を生み出すために株式会社WATARU ARCHITECTSを設立。地方と都市、プロダクトから建築、ソフトからハードなど、対岸を渡って異なる要素を混ぜ合わせ非連続の共感と次の価値観をデザインすることを目的とする。
Wataru Sato, Founder and Principal, WATARU ARCHITECTS INC.
Born in Kanagawa in 1979.
After completing his graduate studies in architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003, he joined KOKUYO, where he became the youngest-ever Head of the Creative Design Division in 2018. There, he led the expansion of the company’s design domain by bridging the realms of WORK and LIFE, and by navigating across scales—from product to architecture, from intimate experience to urban systems.
In May 2023, he founded WATARU ARCHITECTS to initiate a new phase: one that not only responds to, but actively reshapes the flows of society and emerging value systems. The studio’s mission is to traverse boundaries—between rural and urban, product and architecture, software and hardware—and to blend seemingly disparate elements into discontinuous empathy that gives form to next imaginaries.
Born in Kanagawa in 1979.
After completing his graduate studies in architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003, he joined KOKUYO, where he became the youngest-ever Head of the Creative Design Division in 2018. There, he led the expansion of the company’s design domain by bridging the realms of WORK and LIFE, and by navigating across scales—from product to architecture, from intimate experience to urban systems.
In May 2023, he founded WATARU ARCHITECTS to initiate a new phase: one that not only responds to, but actively reshapes the flows of society and emerging value systems. The studio’s mission is to traverse boundaries—between rural and urban, product and architecture, software and hardware—and to blend seemingly disparate elements into discontinuous empathy that gives form to next imaginaries.
