Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer, designer and writer. He is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and ArtCenter College of Design.
Born in Yokohama in 1954, he studied architecture at the University of Tokyo and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in the United States. He is currently a principal of Kengo Kuma and Associates and a special professor and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. His major works include Kiro-San observatory (1994), Water/Glass, Atami, Noh Stage in the Forest /Moributai Traditional Performing Arts Museum, Bato Hiroshige Museum, Great (Bamboo) Wall House, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Suntory’s Tokyo office building, China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum, V&A Dundee, and the Japan National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.