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Miyamoto Lab
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A lab that considers civil engineering and architecture together to explore how landscapes come into being.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing landscape between civil engineering and architecture.
The Miyamoto Lab centers on architectural design practice and develops architectural design theory and the theory of architects as authors from an architect's perspective.
Based on "Doken Kukan-ron" (civil engineering–architecture spatial theory), which considers the closely related fields of civil engineering and architecture together, the lab studies how landscapes come into being.
Participation in the lab's projects is open, and students take on a wide range of design work, from exhibition design and small extensions and renovations to high-rise buildings.
Key terms
- Doken Kukan-ron (Civil Engineering–Architecture Spatial Theory)
- The Miyamoto Lab's way of thinking that considers the closely related fields of civil engineering and architecture together, without separating them
- Theory of Architects as Authors
- Research that reads the nature of design through the works and ideas of a particular architect
- Exhibition Design
- Designing an exhibition, including how works are placed and how visitors move through the space
NewsLab news
A master's student received an Honorable Mention in the UIA-HYP Cup International Student Architectural Design Competition
An architecture exhibition held at Takarazuka City Cultural Arts Center received the Good Design Award 2025
Prof. Miyamoto's work received the JIA 25-Year Award from the Japan Institute of Architects
Prof. Miyamoto received the Okuma Memorial Academic Award for FY2024
Prof. Miyamoto received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize (74th, FY2023) for an architecture exhibition
ResearchResearch themes
The lab centers on architectural design practice and develops architectural design theory and the theory of architects as authors from an architect's perspective. It also studies how landscapes are generated, based on "Doken Kukan-ron" (civil engineering–architecture spatial theory), an approach that comprehensively considers the closely related fields of civil engineering and architecture.
*Illustrative imageLeveling a Level Difference into a Place for Gathering
This plan turns a 3.6 m level difference on the site into a plaza on a gentle slope, with a building for community exchange and disaster preparedness at its edge. With a grand staircase, ramps, and a road that even large vehicles can use in a disaster, it creates a place where people can move freely up and down.
*Illustrative imageGiving a Famous Building a New Use
The lab is working on a project to convert the former Yawata Civic Hall, designed by Togo Murano, into a buried cultural properties center. While keeping the original wooden interior, the auditorium seating area becomes a "visible storage" space, and the exhibition plan was put together mainly by students.
*Illustrative imageRecreating a Town's Memory as Models
In areas affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, the lab holds workshops in collaboration with other universities, in which lost streetscapes are restored as 1:500 scale models while listening to the residents' stories. It is also trying out ways to use the plaza with handmade food stalls.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Miyamoto Lab consist of faculty, research associates, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKatsuhiro Miyamoto
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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: “Government Center Study models ( )” City of Boston Archives from West Roxbury, United States / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Leveling a Level Difference into a Place for Gathering: “Monona Terrace, John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI ( )” Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Giving a Famous Building a New Use: “Togo Murano” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Recreating a Town's Memory as Models: “Wajima-shi Kuroshima-chiku, Ishikawa,Japan” Isoyan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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