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Name FUKUSHIMA Katsuya
Official Title Professor
Affiliation Architecture
E-mail kfukushi@tcu.ac.jp
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Profile Our research theme is the contemporary architectural design and the architectural theory at its roots. We utilise the forms and concepts produced by those architectures through diagrams and words in our education. The research method of working with hands and thinking through words is a long tradition of our school, which starts with Chikatada Kurata, who founded the architecture department. I am also a practitioner of architecture, so we would have actual architectural design work at our laboratory. We aim for a new architectural design and education by expanding out from the conventional frame of universities.
Research Field(Keyword & Summary)
  1. （１） Architectural Structure： Finding out the intangible structures behind architecture

    Japan is currently at a turning point from the period of growth to maturity. In order to cope with this transition, it is crucial to learn from the past and connect it to our times.
    Thus, our laboratory proposes two academic fields.
    （１） Architectural Structure： Finding out the intangible structures behind architecture
    （２） Architectural Archaeology： Creating contemporary architecture through reconstructing the fragments of history
    We are currently focusing on a project where we research the timber tectonics of traditional buildings and reuse them for today's architecture.

  2. （２） Architectural Archaeology： Creating contemporary

    Japan is currently at a turning point from the period of growth to maturity. In order to cope with this transition, it is crucial to learn from the past and connect it to our times.
    Thus, our laboratory proposes two academic fields.
    （１） Architectural Structure： Finding out the intangible structures behind architecture
    （２） Architectural Archaeology： Creating contemporary architecture through reconstructing the fragments of history
    We are currently focusing on a project where we research the timber tectonics of traditional buildings and reuse them for today's architecture.

Representative Papers
  1. （１）stilt house
  2. （２）warehouse of time (Former Honjo Commercial Bank Brick Warehouse)
  3. （３）4 columns
  4. （４）light sheds
  5. （５）timber structure I & II (Archery Hall and Boxing Hall of Kogakuin University)
  6. （６）column and slab
  7. （７）e-HOUSE
  8. （８）c-OFFICE
Award （１）JIA Best Young Architect Award (Japan Institute of Architects)
（２）First Prize in Residencial Architecture Award (Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers)
（３）The Prize of AIJ Architectural Design Division (Architectural Institute of Japan)
（４）German Design Award Gold (German Design Council　Germany)
（５）Award of Merit (UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation 　UNESCO）
（６）DAM ARCHITECTURAL BOOK AWARD (Deutsches Architekturmuseum　Germany)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Support: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) N/A
Research Grants/Projects including subsidies, donations, grants, etc. （１）Rediscovering the Future of Architecture Emerged from the New Materials of the Midcentury
UNION Foundation For Ergodesign Culture Research Grant 2021-2022
（２）Rediscovering the Lost Timber Architecture in the Early Modern Period of Germany
UNION Foundation For Ergodesign Culture Research Grant 2018-2019
（３）The Rituals in the Japanese Living Spaces
Housing Research Foundation JUSOKEN Research Grant 2018-2019
Recruitment of research assistant(s) N/A
Affiliated academic society (Membership type) （１）Member of the Architectural Institute of Japan
（２）Member of the Japan Institute of Architects
Education Field (Undergraduate level) Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, Structural Design
Education Field (Graduate level) Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, Structural Design

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