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Fujiwara Studio
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An architectural design studio that considers the future of cities and architecture through industry.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking the future of industry, cities, and architecture.
Fujiwara Studio is an architecture and urban design studio that considers how industry shapes the form of cities and architecture.
Industry is highly influential, and it shapes not only the form of cities but also the lives, culture, and mindset of the people who live in them.
Through architecture, the studio considers what sustainable industry that respects people and regions could look like.
It is one of the studios of the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) at Yokohama National University, where students belong not to a lab but to a studio, which is the place where they learn.
Key terms
- Post Industry
- The name of the studio's theme, which considers the future of cities, society, and architecture starting from industry.
- Local Community Area formation (chiiki shakaiken-ka)
- Designing the process of architecture and city-making that moves beyond the modern structure created by the one-house-one-family model.
- Firebreak Buildings (bokatai kenchiku)
- Buildings in postwar Yokohama that, through cooperation between the public and private sectors, guided individual rebuilding toward the creation of city blocks. They can also be described as modern machiya (townhouses) built upward in multiple stories.
ResearchResearch themes
The studio's theme is "Post Industry." Starting from the view that the rise of industry is deeply tied to how cities come into being, it considers the future of architecture and cities. In its assignments each term, students reread Yokohama's land and its firebreak buildings, and conceive the form of daily life and regions starting from industry.
*Illustrative imageRereading the Land of Yokohama
Students reread the transformation of Yokohama as a city in the early modern and modern periods. Over the roughly 170 years since the port opened, not only buildings but the shape of the land itself has changed. Students grasp this change as a whole and rethink a vision for the city's future.
*Illustrative imageForming Local Community Areas, Starting from Industry
Focusing on the influence of industry, students consider the future of cities, society, and architecture. They treat daily life and industry, which have been separated, as one, and propose what livelihoods could arise in a town and how people would live there.
*Illustrative imageRereading Yokohama's Firebreak Buildings
Students reread firebreak buildings, which guided the creation of city blocks through cooperation between the public and private sectors during postwar reconstruction. Working together with the Fujioka Lab in architectural planning, they analyze the potential of these buildings and envision the future of Yokohama's central urban area.
*Illustrative imageForming Local Community Areas, Starting from Streets
In this assignment, students creatively analyze Yokohama's streets and turn a specific place they identify into a local community area. They consider not only space and the form of buildings but also economic activity, cultural activity, ecosystems, and social infrastructure at the same time.
MembersFaculty
The members of Y-GSA as a whole consist of professors, associate professors, studio managers, assistant professors, design assistants, and office managers.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorTeppei Fujiwara
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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: “Post-war industrial building - geograph.org.uk - 2537565” David Lally / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Rereading the Land of Yokohama: “Yokohama City (26425201)” Go Matsuo / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Forming Local Community Areas, Starting from Industry: “Matam industrial area 2” Gal Ben-David / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Rereading Yokohama's Firebreak Buildings: “Postwar Housing in Probus - geograph.org.uk - 197334” Tony Atkin / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Forming Local Community Areas, Starting from Streets: “Teramachi Street 2022-04 ac (5)” Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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