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Yamazaki Lab
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The lab studies architectural history through real buildings and also works on the preservation of historic buildings.
AboutAbout the lab
Architectural history learned through real buildings
The Yamazaki Lab specializes in architectural history and design, and studies the appeal of architecture and cities from a historical perspective.
Focusing mainly on modern Japan, the lab has worked on modern Japanese-style architecture, the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Project, architects' archives, and postwar modern and contemporary architecture.
The lab also carries out surveys, research, and conservation and renovation design for actual historic buildings.
Through organizing architects' archives, students acquire the skill to read drawings correctly, and through measured surveys, the skill to turn buildings into accurate drawings.
Key terms
- Architects' archives
- A collection of drawings and materials left by an architect, stored together and organized so that they can be researched later.
- Measured survey
- A survey in which each part of a building is actually measured, and its dimensions and construction are recorded in drawings.
- Registered Cultural Properties
- A cultural property system that promotes preservation on the premise of use, and also covers relatively recent buildings roughly 50 years old.
ResearchResearch themes
Building on the results of previous research, the lab seeks to present new findings through the further collection of materials and careful, close reading. It also surveys historic buildings in various regions to recommend and register them as Registered Cultural Properties, and works on their preservation and use.
*Illustrative imageHousing in Postwar Tokyo
To understand how people lived in postwar Tokyo, the lab reads from historical materials the characteristics of houses requisitioned by the Occupation forces, the Japanese-style rooms and living rooms of houses featured in magazines, and apartment housing.
*Illustrative imageArchitectural Education and Technology at the Predecessor School
The lab traces where graduates of Tokyo Higher Technical School, the university's predecessor, went on to work, and how the building component "Precon" was developed at Tokyo Tech, in order to explore how modern building technology spread.
Measuring, Repairing, and Preserving Masterpiece Houses
The lab measures modern masterpiece houses, such as Kazuo Shinohara's Chi no Ie and Kameki Tsuchiura's own house, to produce accurate drawings, and also takes part in designing their conservation and repair. These efforts aim to pass the value of the buildings on to the next generation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yamazaki Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and international students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTaisuke YamazakiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Tutiurakamekitei” Teduryu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Housing in Postwar Tokyo: “Kadoma Danchi Public Housing” Mr.ち
ゅらさん / CC0 (cropped) - Architectural Education and Technology at the Predecessor School: “Tokyo Institute of Technology,1940” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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