Designed by Yasui Hideo Atelier, Karuizawa Museum is a symbiosis of straight and curved lines. The design concept is from the Japanese art culture of origami in which one is allowed to express his infinite imagination by shaping paper in different forms. This method has been implied to design a facility accompanied to the museum of Hiroshi SENJU, a world-famous Japanese painter/artist. The geometrical shape of the museum gives it both a contemporary and traditional look. The architecture was designed in a manner so that through the windows in between the contrasting lines, one can look at the Yatsugatake or Asamayama mountains.
Yasui Hideo Atelier received his architectural training at Aichi Institute of Technology. He joined the Kitaoka Design office in 1985 and established his own office , the Yasui Hideo Atelier Aoyama Office in 1986. After wards, he opened the Yasui Hideo Gamagouri Office in 1992. Yasui has spent a number of 25 years in the industry with practices that include housing and private residences, museums, medical facilities, commercial buildings, shops, boutiques, bars and restaurants , stations and civic commissions as city halls in Japan and Asian countries.