Takaharu Tezuka, Hon.FAIA

Architect / President of Tezuka Architects / Professor of Tokyo City University

1964 Born in Tokyo, Japan

1987 B. Arch., Musashi Institute of Technology

1990 M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania

1990-1994 Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd.

1994 Founded Tezuka Architects with Yui Tezuka

1996-2008 Associate Professor, Musashi Institute of Technology

2009- Professor, Tokyo City University

2026- Honorary Fellow of AIA

Yui Tezuka

Architect / President of Tezuka Architects

1969 Born in Kanagawa, Japan

1992 B. Arch., Musashi Institute of Technology

1992-1993 The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

1994 Founded Tezuka Architects with Takaharu Tezuka

Awards

The Best of All, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities (2011, Fuji Kindergarten)

Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design (2008, Fuji Kindergarten)

Japan Institute of Architects Award (2008, Fuji Kindergarten) (2015, Sora no Mori Clinic)

AR Award 2004, the Architectural Review (Echigo-matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science)

Good Design Gold Prize (1997, Soejima Hospital) (2013, Asahi Kindergarten)

Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2017, UNESCO

Moriyama RAIC International Prize 2017 (Fuji Kindergarten), Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)

BCS Prize (2018, Sora no Mori Clinic), Japan Federation of Construction Contractors

World Architecture Festival 2018, School Completed Buildings Winner (Muku Nursery School)

The Karic Brothers Award 2020

World Architecture Festival 2021, Completed Buildings - Religion - Winner (Niijima Chapel)

Winner of ArchDaily Building of the Year 2022 (Category: Religious Architecture) (Niijima Chapel)

World Architecture Festival 2024, Small Project of the Year (Fushi)

Exhibitions

2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture

2013 Carnegie International

2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture “Freespace”

Publications

Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue 1-3. TOTO Publishing

Takaharu + Yui Tezuka NOSTALGIC FUTURE ERINNERTE ZUKUNFT, Jovis, 2009.

Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book, Edited by Thomas Sherman & Greg Logan, Jovis, 2016

TED.com “The best kindergarten you've ever seen” by Takaharu Tezuka

https://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen