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Junko Koga, Professor
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The Koga Lab studies the performance of various building materials and of building elements such as walls and floors, with a focus on architectural finishing materials. In particular, it focuses on the effects that finishes have on buildings. Its subjects cover a wide range of issues related to the durability of exteriors and to the habitability and safety of architectural spaces. The lab was established at Institute of Science Tokyo in April 2026.
Sugawara Maiko, Professor
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Sugawara Lab studies barrier-free and universal design in architecture and communities, and inclusive educational environments for children and students with disabilities. The lab pursues the creation of "environments where everyone can live as themselves." With Japan and other countries as its research fields, the lab examines how local governments carry out barrier-free improvements and what standards apply to developing school educational environments. The lab has also studied community accessibility and inclusion in education in Denmark while affiliated with Aalborg University.
Yasumori Akio, Professor
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Yasumori Lab reexamines the study of architectural design (ishō) within the exchange between the Earth and society, and explores the theory and practice of future architecture. Through fieldwork on materials, industry, vacant land, and more, the lab considers architecture through the interplay between typology and ecosystems (ecology). Alongside architectural design aesthetics and building design, the lab also works on campus and urban design.
Keisuke Himoto, Professor
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Himoto Lab conducts research to realize buildings and cities that are resilient to disasters. Centered on knowledge from fire safety engineering, the lab explores its methodology by combining new analysis techniques that have recently been developed. Its topics include fire protection and fire-resistance design of timber buildings, prediction of fire spread in large-scale outdoor fires, and disaster prevention planning that takes social change into account. The lab is new, launched in April 2025.
Takaharu Nakano, Associate Professor
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Nakano Lab conducts research on building structures, focusing on the behavior of foundations during earthquakes. A foundation is a member that supports a building, and it also lies along the path through which ground motion is transmitted. Because the exchange of forces between the ground and the foundation affects how a building shakes, the lab investigates it through both experiments and analysis. The lab is also developing response reduction methods that use magnets to suppress building vibration.
Fuminori Nosaku, Associate Professor
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Nosaku Lab explores an ecological vision of architecture and cities, and investigates the theory and practice of architectural design based on the interconnection of things. Starting from the view that the collective power of humanity has upset the balance of the global environment, the lab considers architecture that reduces that power. Together with students, the lab works on actual building projects, such as reusing old timber salvaged from buildings being demolished and insulating with rice straw and rice husks. The lab is also involved in renovating a traditional old house in a village in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, and in circulating reclaimed timber in areas affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
Kazuya Mitsui, Associate Professor
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Mitsui Lab studies everything from the performance of steel used as a structural material to the evaluation of the structural performance of members and connections. Most of its research themes are carried out jointly with Igarashi Lab in the same Department of Architecture and Building Engineering. Because producing iron emits a large amount of carbon dioxide, the lab explores designs that reduce the amount of steel used by devising cross-sectional shapes that allow thinner plates. The lab's approach is to confirm actual phenomena through structural experiments and verify them with finite element analysis and theoretical analysis.
Yuki Terazawa, Associate Professor
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The Terazawa Lab studies shell and spatial structures and super high-rise buildings, with research that makes architectural design more exciting from the perspectives of structural engineering and disaster prevention. The lab explores and puts into practice design approaches that make full use of digital tools. It is also advancing seismic design methods grounded in experiments and analysis. It is a new lab that became independent from the Takeuchi Lab.
Ryo Murata, Associate Professor
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The Murata Lab's main theme is how architecture and cities that respond to their environment are created. The lab conducts research and design that examine how architecture and cities relate to various historical and geographical contexts, in order to clarify the concrete mechanisms of excellent built environments. Elements such as courtyards and windows, for example, have taken diverse forms across eras and places as devices that mediate between architecture and nature. The lab also takes part in many international design competitions abroad, working on both research and design.
Taisuke Yamazaki, Professor
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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.
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