Von Jour Caux studied architecture at the
Waseda University and opened an architect firm in 1958. He travelled to Chicago in 1962, inspired by architects such as
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and studied painting, sculpture, and arts and crafts at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met his future wife. In 1971, he abandoned his conventional architectural practice and, along with his wife, formed a group of artists and craftsmen called
Art Complex in 1974, the year he adopted the artist pseudonym Von Jour Caux The "Art Complex Movement" is the revival of "
Arts and Crafts Movement" in architectural space, such as the use of ornaments, symbolic icons and style. The group's first project was the
Waseda El Dorado (ドラード早稲田 or Shito) in Tokyo built around a "city of gold" utopy. In 1985, he delivered the Mukōdai Home For the Aged erected in
Higashiyamato, Tokyo where he focused on the end of life phenomenon taking place in the building. In 1990, he designed the La Porta Izumi apartment building in Tokyo. The building has a distinctive facade of a monumental sculpted body-bent woman with hair falling down cascade-like and mixing with the fire of a torch at the lower levels of the building. In 1992, he designed the aquatic Mind Waa building in Tokyo in collaboration with the building owner. ==Style==