Born in April 1959 in Tokyo
March 1983 Graduated from Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
July 1983: Trained in Basel, Switzerland as an IAESTE exchange trainee
September 1985: Graduated from UCLA Graduate School of Architecture as a Ministry of Education scholarship student
March 1986 Completed master's program at Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 1986 Joined Nikken Sekkei Co., Ltd.
June 1998 O.F.D.A associates established
October 1999 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2001: Part-time lecturer (Architectural Design Seminar) at Meiji University Faculty of Science and Engineering and Tokai University Faculty of Engineering
April 2004 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2005: Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
March 2007: Submitted doctoral thesis to Shinshu University Faculty of Engineering, Ph.D. (Engineering)
April 2007 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
April 2008 Part-time lecturer, Waseda University, Faculty of Culture and Media Studies (complex cultural theory seminar)
April 2009 Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
April 2011 Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science
April 2011 Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Media Studies, Waseda University Complex cultural theory seminar (Living environment sensibility theory 1 Sensitivity research on food, clothing, and shelter)
April 2014 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Design and Drafting Seminar (first semester of 3rd year)
February 2015 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Engineering “Special Lecture on Architecture and Urban Space Design”
April 2015 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Design and Drafting Seminar (first semester of 3rd year)
2016 Vienna University of Technology, Visiting Professor
June 6th and June 13th, 2018 Sophia University “Conditions of Architecture”
October 2018-present Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts
April 2019-present Part-time lecturer at Japan Women's University
April to September 2020 Part-time lecturer at Tohoku University
November 2020 Sophia University Part-time Lecturer
April to September 2022 Part-time lecturer at Tohoku University
October 2022 - March 2023 Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts
October 2022 - March 2023 Part-time lecturer at Waseda University School of Art
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March 1983 Graduated from Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
July 1983: Trained in Basel, Switzerland as an IAESTE exchange trainee
September 1985: Graduated from UCLA Graduate School of Architecture as a Ministry of Education scholarship student
March 1986 Completed master's program at Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 1986 Joined Nikken Sekkei Co., Ltd.
June 1998 O.F.D.A associates established
October 1999 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2001: Part-time lecturer (Architectural Design Seminar) at Meiji University Faculty of Science and Engineering and Tokai University Faculty of Engineering
April 2004 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2005: Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
March 2007: Submitted doctoral thesis to Shinshu University Faculty of Engineering, Ph.D. (Engineering)
April 2007 Part-time lecturer (Architectural Aesthetics), Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
April 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
April 2008 Part-time lecturer, Waseda University, Faculty of Culture and Media Studies (complex cultural theory seminar)
April 2009 Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University
April 2011 Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science
April 2011 Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Media Studies, Waseda University Complex cultural theory seminar (Living environment sensibility theory 1 Sensitivity research on food, clothing, and shelter)
April 2014 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Design and Drafting Seminar (first semester of 3rd year)
February 2015 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Engineering “Special Lecture on Architecture and Urban Space Design”
April 2015 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Design and Drafting Seminar (first semester of 3rd year)
2016 Vienna University of Technology, Visiting Professor
June 6th and June 13th, 2018 Sophia University “Conditions of Architecture”
October 2018-present Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts
April 2019-present Part-time lecturer at Japan Women's University
April to September 2020 Part-time lecturer at Tohoku University
November 2020 Sophia University Part-time Lecturer
April to September 2022 Part-time lecturer at Tohoku University
October 2022 - March 2023 Part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts
October 2022 - March 2023 Part-time lecturer at Waseda University School of Art
“The architectural significance of Le Corbusier’s axonometric drawings (1925-1964)” Graduation thesis, 1983, submitted to Tokyo Institute of Technology
“Reading Le Corbusier” “a+u” January 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier and Surrealism” “a+u” February 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier: Le Corbusier and Contextualism” “a+u” April 1984 issue
“The modern meaning of Le Corbusier’s authenticity” “a+u” June 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier in Myth” “a+u” August 1984 issue
“Research on skyscrapers in New York – Research on the sophistication of skyscrapers” (Master’s thesis) Submitted to Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School in 1986
"Vernacular architecture, behind the medina - the case of Tunis", Architectural Magazine, October 1989 issue
“My weekend housing theory goes beyond commercialized villas” “Nikkei Architecture” January 22, 1990 issue
“Exhaust diffusion characteristics of large-scale ventilation towers for submarine tunnels” “Architectural Equipment Engineer” July 1997 issue
“The Architectural Conference at the Turn of the Century, Kazuo Shinohara, Takayuki Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara” “Architectural Technology” June 1997 issue
"Symbol of an era without symbols" "Kensetsu Tsushin Shimbun" December 18, 1997 issue
“Functionality and the design of ventilation towers” “Architectural Technology” March 1998 issue
“Tokyo theory from Tokyo via Kazuo Shinohara/Los Angeles: The embrace of possibility” “GA JAPAN 38” May 1999 issue
"Practical Concrete" "GA Material Space 01" December 2000
"Technological Philosophy" "GA Material Space 01" December 2000 (Interview with Hiroaki Yanagita)
"Thinking about materials as materials" "GA Material Space 02" August 2001 (Interview with Mr. Atsushi Tanigawa)
“Tokyo Theory from Tokyo via Kazuo Shinohara” 2001 Kajima Publishing (co-author)
“About Windows” “Architectural Technology” February 2002 issue
“Sketches of Discursive Space: Things that bypass formality” Architectural Technology, May 2002 issue
“Dialogue: What it means to build – Dialogue between Koji Taki and three young architects” “Architectural Technology” February 2003 issue
“A collection of conversations with Atsushi Tanigawa, the magazine of the universe of art”, 2003, Ubunshinin (includes “Thinking about materials as materials”)
"Gae House's Offside Trap" "10+1" vol.35 2004
"Projections" "10+1" vol.40 Co-authored 2005
“The media nature of windows”, “The living house and its ideological sustainability”, “Recycled architecture of dissent”
Supervised by Prospector “Modern Housing Concept” INAX Publishing 2005
"Architecture like art" "SD" 2005 2005
“Landscape/Law/Architect” “10+1” vol.43 2006
"Who is Terunobu Fujimori?" "The Terunobu Fujimori - A thorough exploration of history, design, and people by a total of 100 people" ExKnowledge 2006
“Talking about Super Studio: A perspective on the 1960s”
http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp./jiseki_archives/page/TSS/109sakaushi.html November 2006
Contributed article to the web site ``Teatro Super Studio'' created to commemorate Super Studio's visit to Japan ``The fate of pathology expressed in architecture'' ``Distant cities'' Seikyusha 2007 ``Le Corbusier's liberating power'' ``DETAIL JAPAN” vol.15 2007 “What are the monsters saying?” “10+1” vol49 2007 “Has the language of modernism died out?” “10+1” vol49 2007 “Research on design principles in architectural design – Diversity “Proposal of a design index as a design principle that incorporates gender and substitutability” (Doctoral dissertation) Submitted to Shinshu University in March 2007
“What were we feeling in the 1980s?” March 2008
"Architecture of Memory vol.5" "Design of a Home" May 2008 "Rules of Architecture - Possibilities of Creating and Interpreting Contemporary Architecture" Nakanishiya Publishing 2008 "Changes in Words" "10+1" web site 2009/1 Month: “Architecture as a Frame” Sankeisha 2010 “Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Taira Nishizawa “Modern Housing Research”” Edited by Taro Igarashi “Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century” Shokokusha,2010 "Robert Venturi's 'Complexity and Opposition'" edited by Taro Igarashi "Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century" Shokokusha, 2010 "Adrian Foti" "Language and Architecture"" edited by Taro Igarashi "Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century" Shokokusha, 2010 Book Review "Principles and Practice of Structural Planning" by Onshun Kanebako "Architects" vol.59, August 2010 "Looking back at the 10+1 Survey 2010" 10+1 website released on January 31, 2011 "Sakamoto Kazunari Sakamoto's exhibition catalog in China 2011 "What we can learn from Metabolism Nexus" 10+1 website released 7/1/2011 "Looking back at the 10+1 survey 2011" 10+1 website released 1/31/2012 " Ethics as an Architect” “Architectural Technology”2012.01 “Events of 2011” 10+1 website released on December 28, 2011 “Nikken-like architecture” “NA Architect Series 05” Nikkei BP, 2012 “Reading the layers of meaning” (written by Anthony Vidler, translated by Sohei Imamura) ``Inventions of 20th Century Architecture: Modernism Interpreted by Architectural Historians'' Kajima Publishing 2012 Book Review) ``Architectural Technology''October 2012 issue “Architecture, design, and Comme des Garçons: An attempt to dismantle Comme des Garçons from design and structural analysis,” edited by Mariko Nishitani, “Relativistic Comme des Garçons theory: Why do we talk about Comme des Garçons?” Film Artsha, 2012 Collection Gyu Taku Saka, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo University of Science Saka Ushi Laboratory “α Space: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Taku Saka Gyu’s Esquis Check” Kajima Publishing Co., Ltd.January 2013〈Architectural Theory Research 06〉──Kazuo Shinohara “Housing Theory” “Zoku Housing Theory” Discussion with Taiki Tennai and Yasuhiro Minami September 11, 2014 10+1 website http://10plus1.jp/monthly Published on /2014/09/-06.php "The fusion of art and architecture" Included in "SD2014" "Now is the time for a critical spirit" "Architectural Technology" February 2015 issue "Architecture and words are inseparable" "Kenchikugaku from the age of 14" March 2015 10+1 Web site http://10plus1.jp/monthly/2015/11/issue-03.php Frank O. Gehry special feature "Architecture wrapped in" Taku Sakaushi, Yuto Hirase, Nakano Takeo “Illustrated Graphic Design for Architectural Presentations” December 2015
Taku Sakagyu “Architecture as Frame and Reframe” Sankeisha July 2016
Takashi Sakagyu, “Conditions of Architecture: Architecture after Architecture”, Lixil Publishing, June 2017
JIA MAGAZINE VOL348 March 2018 issue “What architects do to take photos”
``Architectural Technology'' January 2018 issue Book review Review of Fumihiko Maki's ``Aiming for the modernism of afterimages ``Humanism of empathy'''' ``The role of architecture required now''
"Aiming at creating Effective Keywords" in "Architectural Magazine" October 2018 issue "Read the special feature - design and research" "Architectural Magazine" October 2019 issue "Architectural Magazine" "How to use history" included in the March 2020 issue
Taku Sakaushi “Taku Sakaushi Architectura en despliegue Unfolding Architecture 2001-2021” TC cuadernos February 2021
Book review “Flexible Truth” by Onshun Kanebako, included in the August 2021 issue of “Architectural Technology”
Edited by Takashi Sakaushi “From the architect’s starting point “a single line” to “movies,” we ask 13 people about the beginning of architecture” Shokokusha May 10, 2022
“Thoughts on overlap seen in “Kikuna Shell Midden House”” included in “SD202” December 2022
“Flow and Stagnation” Included in “New Construction Housing Special Feature” January 2023 issue
Taku Sakagyu “Quit your job and become an architect” Flick Studio March 31, 2023
“Reading Le Corbusier” “a+u” January 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier and Surrealism” “a+u” February 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier: Le Corbusier and Contextualism” “a+u” April 1984 issue
“The modern meaning of Le Corbusier’s authenticity” “a+u” June 1984 issue
“Le Corbusier in Myth” “a+u” August 1984 issue
“Research on skyscrapers in New York – Research on the sophistication of skyscrapers” (Master’s thesis) Submitted to Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School in 1986
"Vernacular architecture, behind the medina - the case of Tunis", Architectural Magazine, October 1989 issue
“My weekend housing theory goes beyond commercialized villas” “Nikkei Architecture” January 22, 1990 issue
“Exhaust diffusion characteristics of large-scale ventilation towers for submarine tunnels” “Architectural Equipment Engineer” July 1997 issue
“The Architectural Conference at the Turn of the Century, Kazuo Shinohara, Takayuki Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara” “Architectural Technology” June 1997 issue
"Symbol of an era without symbols" "Kensetsu Tsushin Shimbun" December 18, 1997 issue
“Functionality and the design of ventilation towers” “Architectural Technology” March 1998 issue
“Tokyo theory from Tokyo via Kazuo Shinohara/Los Angeles: The embrace of possibility” “GA JAPAN 38” May 1999 issue
"Practical Concrete" "GA Material Space 01" December 2000
"Technological Philosophy" "GA Material Space 01" December 2000 (Interview with Hiroaki Yanagita)
"Thinking about materials as materials" "GA Material Space 02" August 2001 (Interview with Mr. Atsushi Tanigawa)
“Tokyo Theory from Tokyo via Kazuo Shinohara” 2001 Kajima Publishing (co-author)
“About Windows” “Architectural Technology” February 2002 issue
“Sketches of Discursive Space: Things that bypass formality” Architectural Technology, May 2002 issue
“Dialogue: What it means to build – Dialogue between Koji Taki and three young architects” “Architectural Technology” February 2003 issue
“A collection of conversations with Atsushi Tanigawa, the magazine of the universe of art”, 2003, Ubunshinin (includes “Thinking about materials as materials”)
"Gae House's Offside Trap" "10+1" vol.35 2004
"Projections" "10+1" vol.40 Co-authored 2005
“The media nature of windows”, “The living house and its ideological sustainability”, “Recycled architecture of dissent”
Supervised by Prospector “Modern Housing Concept” INAX Publishing 2005
"Architecture like art" "SD" 2005 2005
“Landscape/Law/Architect” “10+1” vol.43 2006
"Who is Terunobu Fujimori?" "The Terunobu Fujimori - A thorough exploration of history, design, and people by a total of 100 people" ExKnowledge 2006
“Talking about Super Studio: A perspective on the 1960s”
http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp./jiseki_archives/page/TSS/109sakaushi.html November 2006
Contributed article to the web site ``Teatro Super Studio'' created to commemorate Super Studio's visit to Japan ``The fate of pathology expressed in architecture'' ``Distant cities'' Seikyusha 2007 ``Le Corbusier's liberating power'' ``DETAIL JAPAN” vol.15 2007 “What are the monsters saying?” “10+1” vol49 2007 “Has the language of modernism died out?” “10+1” vol49 2007 “Research on design principles in architectural design – Diversity “Proposal of a design index as a design principle that incorporates gender and substitutability” (Doctoral dissertation) Submitted to Shinshu University in March 2007
“What were we feeling in the 1980s?” March 2008
"Architecture of Memory vol.5" "Design of a Home" May 2008 "Rules of Architecture - Possibilities of Creating and Interpreting Contemporary Architecture" Nakanishiya Publishing 2008 "Changes in Words" "10+1" web site 2009/1 Month: “Architecture as a Frame” Sankeisha 2010 “Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Taira Nishizawa “Modern Housing Research”” Edited by Taro Igarashi “Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century” Shokokusha,2010 "Robert Venturi's 'Complexity and Opposition'" edited by Taro Igarashi "Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century" Shokokusha, 2010 "Adrian Foti" "Language and Architecture"" edited by Taro Igarashi "Architectural City Book Guide 21st Century" Shokokusha, 2010 Book Review "Principles and Practice of Structural Planning" by Onshun Kanebako "Architects" vol.59, August 2010 "Looking back at the 10+1 Survey 2010" 10+1 website released on January 31, 2011 "Sakamoto Kazunari Sakamoto's exhibition catalog in China 2011 "What we can learn from Metabolism Nexus" 10+1 website released 7/1/2011 "Looking back at the 10+1 survey 2011" 10+1 website released 1/31/2012 " Ethics as an Architect” “Architectural Technology”2012.01 “Events of 2011” 10+1 website released on December 28, 2011 “Nikken-like architecture” “NA Architect Series 05” Nikkei BP, 2012 “Reading the layers of meaning” (written by Anthony Vidler, translated by Sohei Imamura) ``Inventions of 20th Century Architecture: Modernism Interpreted by Architectural Historians'' Kajima Publishing 2012 Book Review) ``Architectural Technology''October 2012 issue
Taku Sakagyu “Architecture as Frame and Reframe” Sankeisha July 2016
Takashi Sakagyu, “Conditions of Architecture: Architecture after Architecture”, Lixil Publishing, June 2017
JIA MAGAZINE VOL348 March 2018 issue “What architects do to take photos”
``Architectural Technology'' January 2018 issue Book review Review of Fumihiko Maki's ``Aiming for the modernism of afterimages ``Humanism of empathy'''' ``The role of architecture required now''
"Aiming at creating Effective Keywords" in "Architectural Magazine" October 2018 issue "Read the special feature - design and research" "Architectural Magazine" October 2019 issue "Architectural Magazine" "How to use history" included in the March 2020 issue
Taku Sakaushi “Taku Sakaushi Architectura en despliegue Unfolding Architecture 2001-2021” TC cuadernos February 2021
Book review “Flexible Truth” by Onshun Kanebako, included in the August 2021 issue of “Architectural Technology”
Edited by Takashi Sakaushi “From the architect’s starting point “a single line” to “movies,” we ask 13 people about the beginning of architecture” Shokokusha May 10, 2022
“Thoughts on overlap seen in “Kikuna Shell Midden House”” included in “SD202” December 2022
“Flow and Stagnation” Included in “New Construction Housing Special Feature” January 2023 issue
Taku Sakagyu “Quit your job and become an architect” Flick Studio March 31, 2023
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