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Yoshimura Lab
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The lab envisions the architecture of the future through the lenses of semi-movable, semi-urban, and semi-information architecture.
AboutAbout the lab
Envisioning architecture and cities in the demographic onus period.
The Yoshimura Lab studies possible future forms of architecture and cities in Japan, where the population is declining.
It considers what architecture can be through three lenses: semi-movable architecture, semi-urban architecture, and semi-information architecture.
It also takes up an interdisciplinary field: how technologies from outside architecture, such as drones, self-driving cars, robots, IoT, and AI, will change cities and architecture.
Key terms
- Demographic onus period
- A period in which the share of the working-age population shrinks and the share of the population supported by society grows
- Interdisciplinary field
- An area where several academic disciplines span and overlap
- IoT (Internet of Things)
- A system in which everyday objects are connected to the internet and exchange information
NewsLab news
A master's student won an Excellence Award at the 23rd Graduate Master's Design Exhibition 2025, held by the Kanto-Koshinetsu Chapter of the Japan Institute of Architects
A master's student won the Outstanding Young Presenter Award at the 2024 Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Meeting
A master's student won the Best Design Award at the research presentation of Kasoken (a cremation research group)
ResearchResearch themes
Founded in 2018, the lab studies the forms of architecture and cities that Japan could take as it enters a severe demographic onus period, using semi-movable, semi-urban, and semi-information architecture as its lenses. Just as elevators and air conditioning changed 20th-century architecture, technologies from outside architecture, such as drones, self-driving cars, robots, IoT, and AI, are changing cities and architecture. The lab organizes this interdisciplinary field under the name "Semi-Seminar" (Semi-Zemi).
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The Yoshimura Lab's members consist of faculty and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasutaka Yoshimura
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