Haraguchi Noriyuki was born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, in 1946.Haraguchi’s adopted materials have come to include I-beams, pressed-steel car parts, waste oil, polyurethane, and rubber—creating an aesthetic vocabulary quite distinct from his Mono-ha contemporaries such as Lee Ufan, Sekine Nobuo, and Suga Kishio, who embraced more natural materials.