Architectural Anthropology/ Anthropological Architecture/ Ethnographic Architectural Study

Housing and Environmental Design Studio / Laboratory is specializing FIELD ARCHITECTURE, RE-DSIGN OF THE COMMUNITY, CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, in School of Architecture, Shibaura Institute of Technology Tokyo. The Lab. aims at understanding interaction between architecture and human being especially focusing on vernacular ways of housing and dwelling world wide and presenting the new ways how to make use of it in the current context and for the further sustainable development of the community.

Imagination and creativity Black House in Chiang Rai

Origin and Mystery Black House Chiang Rai

Sketch is our most basic skill

Team work and individual work

small power gathering

Local knowledge: House Renovation Project in Northern Thailand

Cooperation with local people: Eco Museum project in Laos

Licit Architecture Theory in high density area

Cross-cultural understanding and cultural relativism

Development of revitalization method of living culture and cultural landscape of Southeast Asian waterfront village and dissemination of the method by reverse innovation

Religion and ritual practice: House of Ogami Island, Okinawa

Live and die in the house: Bena, Flores Is. Indonesia

Noble and Slave: Social relationship in Rindi, East Sumba

Architecture beyond our imagination

We go ahead!