Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui

Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui ARB RIBA is practicing as an architect at Urban Salon Architects in London, while concurrently lecturing at the Royal College of Art in the UK. Born in 1981 in Hong Kong, he is half Chinese and half Japanese. He studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture University College London under Dr. Marjan Colletti and Dr. Marcos Cruz. Kenny is a co-founder of Horhizon.
His research titled ‘Plantmorphic Voids’ was carried out in the Advanced Architectural Design Research programme at the Bartlett in 2007. His non- linear approach to digital design is multilayered in emotional narratives, and aim to lifting spirits and constructing new optimism in architecture.
Kenny worked for Richard Rogers Partnership in 2003-4, most notably on 122 Leadenhall Street, a prestigious unprecedented high-profile 50 storey office building in the City of London. He is currently practicing at Urban Salon Architects in London, and has most recently worked on complex curved Glulam roof structure for the £95million scheme M&S Liverpool flagship store in collaboration with Buro Happold, and engineered timber panels construction with KLH for the RIBA awarded Falmouth School.
In 2007 Kenny was recommended by Sir Peter Cook to take up a visiting lecturer position at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. The subsequent digital design studio was awarded The Best Studio Prize in 2008 by Massimiliano Fuksas. He is currently a visiting lecturer for Masters of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. He was an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and has tutored a number of awards wining students. He is one of the curators for the OS International open lecture series at London South Bank University, and co-edited the OS publication featuring essays from the acclaimed architectural speakers. He has run digital-augmentation design workshops at Royal College of Art, Brighton University, and Lund University in Sweden.
Kenny’s projects conducted through Horhizon have won ideas competitions, most recently achieved 1st Prize in D3 Natural Systems (2009) and 3rd Prize in Farmer’s Market Prize (2009). Other awards include 1st Prize in RIBA International Competition College for the Future (2004), 1st Prize in Reardon Smith European Hotel Design Student Award (2003), 1st Prize in AIA London/UK Excellence in Design Student Travel Award (2003 & 2006), and Commendation in Design for Diploma project at the Bartlett. His works has been published and featured in exhibitions across countries, most recently featured as one of the innovative digital designers in a new book Contemporary Digital Architecture (2010).

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