Sachiko Kawagoe
MFA ’25 Architecture
In the effort to seek an anti-colonial architectural practice, I collected my old and new personal journal entries related to a diasporic, or lost, sense of place. The overlays of translation and censorship each refer to the multi-generational bilingual education effort in which I was raised, and to my grandfather working as a censor, inking out the letters from the US for the Japanese military during WWII. As a result of this archive of memories, a contradictory place appears between the desires for consumption and conservation, acceptance and denial.
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Sachiko Kawagoe is an architectural designer, an artist, and an educator based in Somerville, MA. Her nonlinear spatial design career spans across scenography, lighting, and architecture. She received an M.Arch from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in MA, USA, and a BA in literature focusing on theatre from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.
