We started the morning and another architectural firm, but this artist dealt entirely with paper. He creates installations for shops and museums that are all created from flat pieces of just normal paper. It was really cool to see how he could just cut, fold and glue paper and create objects such as a teddy bear. It was pretty crazy, and of course I can't find any of my pictures of it now. But after we left his office we went back to the bookstore and I bought his book with pictures of all of his work.
In the evening we traveled to the University of Tokyo to watch a lecture and I actually had no idea that Kengo Kuma was going to be there. But I heard someone talking about the Sunny Hills bakery and then I realized it was him! It was a good surprise, but unfortunately we got there late and there was no seating left, and this was my lovely view of Kengo Kuma.
It was still worth it to hear him I guess. We stayed at the lecture for a few hours but eventually we got tired of not being able to really see or hear anything so we decided to go get a nice dinner.
We had some kind of noodle thing I can't name and dumplings, and sake, and I got some really delicious oolong tea. I'm still not exactly sure what an oolong is, but they love it here and it tastes like a really sweet fruit so I have been ordering a lot of different things with it and they are all very good.
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