Hisao Kohyama

Architect, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Honorable Fellow of the AIA

1937 Born in Tokyo
1960 University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Engineering
1965 University of Pennsylvania, Master of Architecture
1968- 1971 Associate Professor of Architecture, Kyusyu Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan
1971-1986 Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1971- Chief Architect, Koyama Atelier (Kohyama and Associates), Japan
1975-1976 Visiting Fellow of American Council of Learned Societies, Department of Art History Graduate School, Yale University, Connecticut, USA
1982 Visiting Critic, Graduate school of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania, USA
1986 Doctor of Engineering in Architecture (University of Tokyo)
1986-1997 Professor of Architecture, University of Tokyo
1997-2002 Professor of Architecture, Meiji University
2002-2007 Professor, University of the Air
2007 Professor, Seigakuin University

BOOKS

″Kenchikukeitai-no-Kozo    (Structure of Architectural Form)″:University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1988

″Koya-to-kaitakusya        (Wilderness and Pioneers—Early American Architecture)″;

Maruzen Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1988

″Tosi-wo-tukuru-jutaku     (Houses for Cities-Anglo-American Town Houses)″;

Maruzen Publishing Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1990

″Kenchikuka-no-Drawing   (Drawings by Architects)″;University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo,1994

″Kenchikuka-isyo-kogi      (Lectures on Architecture) ″:University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1996

AWARD

Building Construction Society Award    (Hotel Sun Garden, 1986 / Saitama Arts Theater, 1995 / Kani Creative Art Center, 2001 / Ito International Research Center, 2013)

Public Building Award   (Imaizumi Museum, Niigata, 1993 / Yokohama Customs, Kanagawa, 2010)

Fukushima-ken Architectural Award   (Sakura Junior High School, 1993)

Japan Library Association, the Library Architecture Award   (Sagami Women’s University, Central Library, 1994)

Murano Togo Architectural Award   (Saitama Arts Theater, 1995)

Architectural Institute of Japan Award   (Saitama Arts Theater, 1996)

United States Institute of Theater Technology Architectural award   (Saitama Arts Theater, 1996)

Annual Architectural Design Commendation of the Architectural Institute of Japan   (Sekikawa Museum, 1996)

Annual Arch. Design Commendation, JIA  (Yayoi Auditorium, 2002)

Japan Art Academy Award   (Seigakuin Univ. Chapel, 2006)