🏛️ Architecture & Design Aug 31, 2026 · Rachel Paese

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Kenya Hara (原 研哉), the Japanese graphic designer, curator, and writer, has built an exceptional body of work based on his observations on the power of design.



Unlike art, which is an individual expression, design must be done together, and for each other, in part by discovering a question that hasn’t yet been asked. “The essence of design lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it,” he says.



It is with this in mind — and with you in mind

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