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Japanese Architects : Architecture Studios

Key Building Designers from Japan – East Asia Architectural Practices

post updated 12 May 2023

Japanese Architect – Architect Offices Listings

This page contains a selection of major Japanese architects, with links to individual practice pages. We’ve selected what we feel are the key Japanese Architects, but additions are always welcome. The focus is on contemporary architects in Japan but information on traditional architecture studios is also welcome.

Japanese architects have a strong reputation worldwide with many practices working globally. Currently the most notable architecture practices are SANAA, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Fumihiko Maki and Kisho Kurokawa.

Japanese Design Offices

Additions for the Japanese Architecture Studios page welcome

Japanese Architecture

Kurakuen II House Japan
picture © Hitoyuki Hitai

Links to Japanese Architect Studio Informationarchitect offices in Japan listed alphabetically by surname

Major Japanese Architects Practices

Toyo Ito Architects

Kengo Kuma & Associates

Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates

Fumihiko Maki – Maki And Associates

Nikken Sekkei Architects

Shigeru Ban

Sou Fujimoto Architects

Tadao Ando Architects & Associates (Osaka)

Key 20th Century Japanese Architect

Kenzo Tange Architect

Japanese Architects Studios

Atelier A5 (Tokyo)
Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo)
Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Atelier Tekuto

EASTERN design office
Edward Suzuki Associates

FT Architects
Future Studio (Hiroshima + Tokyo)

Heerim Architects

Itsuko Hasegawa Architect

htmn (Tokyo)

Jun Aoki & Associates (Tokyo)
Jun Igarashi Architects (Hokkaido)
Junya Toda Architect & Associates

Klein Dytham Architecture (Tokyo)
Kohki Hiranuma (Tokyo)
Kotaro Ide (Meguro)

Nakayama Architects
Nobuo Araki / The Archetype (Tokyo)

Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop

Shuhei Endo

Tadashi Suga (Kobe-city)
Takeshi Hosaka (Yokohama city, Kanagawa)
TERADADESIGN (Tokyo)
Terunobu Fujimori
Tezuka Architects (Tokyo)

UZU (Osaka)

More Japanese Architects offices online soon

Japanese Building

Korinkyo House Japan
photo : Makoto Nakayama

Japanese architecture studio : Eisaku Ushida of Ushida Findlay (Japanese / Scottish)

Japanese Architects Studios featured on the site but unlisted in architect practice section.
Amorphe Takeyama & Associates (Kyoto)
Go Hasegawa, Architects (Tokyo)
Kazuyasu Kochi / Kochi architect’s Studio (Tokyo)
Masahiro Harada + MAO/Mount Fuji Architects Studio (Tokyo)
Shinichiro Akasaka Atelier (Sapporo)

Tom Heneghan (designer previously based in Japan, latterly in Australia)

Location: Japan, east Asia

Japanese Architecture

Japanese School Architecture
Japanese Kindergarten
photograph : Katsuhisa Kida

Contemporary Japanese Buildings

Japan Architecture Tour

Japanese House Designs

Japanese Houses

Japanese Office Architecture

Tokyo Architect

Japanese Buildings
House in Yotsukaido
photograph from architect

Japan Expo Pavilion

Additions / photos for the Japanese Architect Studio – contemporary Architecture Offices page welcome