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In one project by this architect, an artificial hill planted with lavender surrounds a colossal Buddha statue. This architect built a house with a 4x4 (“four-by-four”) design for one client after an earthquake, then replicated the house in wood on the neighboring plot. A 1976 row house by this architect has no exterior windows on its facade. This architect built a concrete art gallery at the centre of a Malibu mansion later bought for $200 million by Beyoncé, and another mansion by this architect was gutted by Kanye West. In a design by this architect that employs (10[1])“borrowed scenery,” a floor-to-ceiling window is level with a reflecting pool with a cross in the center. That chapel was followed by one in which openings in the cast-concrete walls form the shape of a cross. For 10 points, name this Japanese architect who designed Osaka’s Church of the Light. ■END■

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