Isamu Noguchi was born in 1904 in Los Angeles, California to a Japanese poet and an Irish-American teacher and editor. Noguchi was raised in Japan until he was 13 years of age where at that time went to the United States to study. In 1927 Isamu Noguchi won one of the first Guggenheim fellowships and then traveled to Paris where he worked for six months for sculptor Constantin Brancusi as his studio assistant.

In 1932 he went to New York where he became well known as a sculptor and a portrait artist as well as winning jobs for memorials, monuments and industrial designs. With the help of  his long-time friend, the visionary engineer, Buckminster Fuller, he created models, outdoor projects, and investigated the ways in which people live and thrive in their environments.

Isamu Noguchi was a designer, architect, sculptor and craftsman. Isamu Noguchi believed that through architecture and sculpture people could better understand the struggle with nature.