Emmanuelle Moureaux was born in France in 1971. She earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Bordeaux, and upon graduation in 1995, worked at Eric Raffy and Associates. Emmanuelle moved to Tokyo in 1996 and established Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design in 2003. Inspired by the Japanese traditional sliding screens, Emmanuelle has been developing the concept of “Shikiri”, a colorful partition series which literally means "dividing space with colors" in English, with different materials through many of her projects such as beauty salons, offices, clinics, and schools in hopes to bring out the essence of the old and turn them into something modern and practical which still can be used today. Her distinguish use of colors has been recognized extensively –one of the leading design magazines, Brain called her “Master of Colors”. She uses colors as threedimensional items, like layers, in order to create spaces, and not as an element applied at the end of the design process to decorate the space. emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design has won 2011 "International Architecture Awards", 2011" Hong-Kong Perspective Awards" and 2011 “Design for Asia Award”(Silver Award) with Sugamo Shinkin Bank/Shimura Branch.