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Shunichi Koshimura, Professor
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The Disaster Geoinformatics Lab is developing a new framework for detecting and assessing disaster damage. It combines real-time computation, models that estimate damage and losses, and remote sensing. Its goal is to deliver, as practically usable information, where a disaster has struck and how much damage it has caused. To support disaster response, relief, and humanitarian assistance, the lab also conducts joint research with universities and companies in Japan and overseas.
Takashi Akamatsu, Professor
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The Transport Control Lab studies mathematical and information-science methods for planning and operating urban and transportation systems. Made up of the Akamatsu Lab and the Satsukawa Lab, it covers fields such as transportation, spatial economics, and investment. Using information and communication technology and game theory, the lab explores how to build comfortable, congestion-free transportation systems. It also works on designing institutions for bringing new modes of mobility, such as autonomous driving, sharing, and MaaS, into cities.
Makoto Okumura, Professor
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The Regional Planning and Resilience Planning Lab aims to realize regions that can respond flexibly to disasters and recover from them. The lab examines, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how disasters in Japan and abroad have affected local societies and economies, and how those areas recovered. Its research also covers approaches to reconstruction planning that draw on the experience of disaster damage, and how governance between government and residents should work. Building on statistics, economics, and geography, the lab uses GIS and optimization methods to plan land use and transportation.
Katsuya Hirano, Associate Professor
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The Regional Planning and Spatial Design Strategy Lab studies reconstruction-oriented community planning in tsunami-affected areas and the design of civil infrastructure. The lab also works on landscape perception mechanisms, meaning how people perceive landscapes, and on applying them to community planning. Landscape theory and urban planning theory are also listed among its research topics. In the Faculty of Engineering, the lab is introduced as a lab of the Urban System Planning Course in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Taro Igarashi, Professor
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The Architectural Design Lab studies the relationship between architecture and other genres, including art, and works to bring this into design. The lab has handled architecture exhibitions in Japan and abroad, from planning through installation to operation. In areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab carries out projects such as temporary housing in Minamisoma. As the Igarashi Lab, it works together with the Urban and Architectural Theory Lab.
Taro Igarashi, Professor
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The Urban and Architectural Theory Lab studies modern and contemporary architectural theory and urban theory. Beginning with Madogaku (window studies), which has continued since 2007, the lab conducts surveys focused on building elements such as house shapes and ceilings, as well as research on plazas. It also carries out design research commissioned by companies, and edits and produces architecture books. As the Igarashi Lab, it works together with the Architectural Design Lab.
Masashige Motoe, Associate Professor
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The IT Communication Design Lab designs new ways of using cities and architecture that are opened up by information technology. It works on workplace design for creative group work, and on spatial communication design for sharing information. It is also involved in designing the preservation and use of the Nakahama Elementary School earthquake disaster ruins, and in creating places where children can learn while playing at construction sites. The lab also takes part in the activities of the Field Design Center of the Graduate School of Engineering, which addresses social issues through collaboration across disciplines.
Takashi Fujino, Associate Professor
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The Project Design Lab studies architectural design aesthetics through real-world examples. Architects are expected to have the conceptual vision to read changes in human society and the natural environment and to show new values through architecture. Associate Professor Fujino continues to work in design practice and received the 2026 Architectural Institute of Japan Selected Architectural Designs Award for "Flowers and Roots." Works designed by Associate Professor Fujino have also been presented in magazines and exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
Shunichi Nomura, Associate Professor
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The Spatial Cultural History Lab studies the history of Japanese and Asian architecture from antiquity to the period before the contemporary era, as well as cultural heritage studies for preserving and regenerating architecture. The lab asks how the cities and architecture around us have been built, used, and given meaning. In addition to the design, space, and structure of buildings, it examines from multiple perspectives the ideas and social backgrounds that produced them. Carrying on the tradition of the architectural history labs at Tohoku University, the lab places emphasis on interdisciplinary research with fields in the humanities.
Junichiro Higaya, Associate Professor
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The Architectural World Heritage Lab studies the history of architecture and cities of all times and places. Its goal is to bring back their past appearance by surveying and documenting historic buildings and architectural drawings, and by translating and annotating texts. Believing that academic exchange with related fields, not only architecture, is essential, the lab aims to train people who are not bound by conditions such as humanities versus sciences or domestic versus international. The lab has international students and students with prior work experience.
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