Takashi Yamaguchi

Education

He graduated from Kyoto University and worked for Tadao Ando and Associates.

Career

He founded his own architectural firm, Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates, in 1996. The group includes staff from the offices of Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, as well as theorists from Columbia University. He founded Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates in 1996, and served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2010.

1998: Exhibition, Glass Temple, Japan

1999: The 18th Space Design Review, Japan

2000: Exhibition, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2001: Exhibition, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland

2002: Chemical Abstracts Service: Contemporary Art and Spirits, Japan

2004: Designer"s Week Exhibition, Japan

2004: International Architectural Biennale in Beijing, China

2004: Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, National Building Museum, United States

2005: International Biennal Barbara Cappochin Exhibition, Padua, Italy

2005: Good Design Award Presentation, Japan

2005: AD 5 ans Exposition, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

2006: Salzburg Reinberg International Competition, Austria

2007: Exhibition, Eion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Romania

2007: Parallel Nippon – Contemporary Japanese Architecture – 1996–2006, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

2008: Good Design Award Exhibition, Japan

2009: Good Design Award Exhibition, Japan

2009: arquitectura japonesa desde miradas argentinas, Argentina

2010: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York

2010: Barbara Cappochin International Biennale in Japan, Institution of Italian Culture, Japan

2011: The Kyoto Design Award Exhibition, Japan

2012: Georgia Houses Projects 2012 Exhibition, Japan

2012: Vertical Urban Factory: East Asia Exhibition, New York University"s Department of East Asian Studies, New New York

Achievements

• 1992: Finalist of Spreebogen International Competition for a New German Capital in Berlin with "ARX", Germany 1999: Asakura Prize, The 18th Space Design Review, Japan 2001: 1st place, the 9th DuPont Benedictus, United States 2005: Good Design Award, Japan 2005: Barbara Cappochin Architecture Prize, Italy 2005: Finalist of JIA Architectural, Japan 2005: JIA Architectural Selection, Japan 2007: Intermedia-globe Silver Prize, World Media Festival, Germany 2008: Good Design Award, Japan 2009: Good Design Award, Japan 2011: The Kyoto Design Award, Japan 2011: Selected Dedalo Minosse International Prize, Italy.

Membership

Yamaguchi served as a visiting professor at the Osaka University of Arts in 2005, and in 2009 served as visiting professor at Columbia University and visiting scholar at Harvard. He is a professor at Osaka Sangyo University and a member of the Japan Institute of Architects and the Architectural Institute of Japan. He is an elite member of the Supporters of Romania Research at the Academy of Romanian Scientists.

In 1988 Yamaguchi was a founding member of ARX, an international research group for theory and practice of architecture which has offices in New York, Geneva, Berlin, and Lisbon.