Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. He graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University in 1994, and established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2015, he won the Invited International Competition for the New Learning Center at Paris-Saclay's Ecole Polytechnique following his win of the International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier in 2014. In 2013, he became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London.

His most important works include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 (2013), House NA (2011), Musashino Art University Museum and Library (2010), Final Wooden Housen (2008), and House N (2008).