With his Tokyo and Kyoto-based firm KINO architects, founded in 2008, Masahiro Kinoshita has been designing spaces and landscapes that focus on people and community since 2008: from kindergartens and libraries to cemeteries, office buildings and residential buildings. A clear stance and sense of social responsibility give rise to carefully considered architecture in the spirit of a sustainable society. For example, the conversion of a traditional boathouse with storage rooms into the Ine City Library, and the communal grave at Hirao Cemetery in Fukuoka have won multiple awards. Text in English and German.