Faculty Members

LANGUAGE ≫ Japanese
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Professor
WATANABE Kikuma

Master of Emgineering, Japan, 1997

Ph.D., Japan, 2024

  • Year of birth: 1971
  • Gender: Male
  • Affiliation:
    - School of Systems Engineering
    - Infrastructure Systems Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Enginering
Areas of specialization
Laboratory/research office Laboratory for design of Architecture adapted to Environment
This laboratory aims to provide the architectural design in harmony with three environmental components. The first is eco-technological environment that enables both inner and outer space of architecture to be comfortable. The second is cultural environment including landscape. The third is spiritual environment that leads to universe in the depths of human mind.
Current research topics
Educational background
Professional background
Licenses
Academic societies

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Courses

* Courses provided in English are shown with (E) mark

Undergraduate school
  • Studio Exercise of Architectural Design
  • History of Architecture
  • Indoor Condition Design
  • Environmental Architectural Design
  • Graduation Thesis
Graduate school
  • Advanced Study on Environmental Architectural Design
  • Advanced Study Exercise of Architectural Design
  • Individual Work for Graduate
  • Internship

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Research activities

Research papers
  1. Authors: 渡辺　菊眞
    Title: 鳥辺野 (京都阿弥陀ヶ峰山麓) の空間的特質に関する考察
    Journal: 日本建築学会計画系論文集, No. 543
    Year: 2001
Notable projects
  1. Home with "Pit Garden", 2025
  2. Passive House blessed with Sun Space for Grapevine, 2025
  3. Kikuma Watanabe Architecture Exhibition Architecture to be built,Architecture to be unbuilt, Treasure in Landscape, 2019
  4. Self-build Movable Shrine for Kanamine Shrine community, 2017
  5. Self-build Shinto Shrine in depopulated village in Japan, 2016
  6. Home between Earth and Sky-Passive House with Sundial, Kikuma Watanabe, 2015
  7. Ark soaring in the Sky - School building for Rainbow School in Thailand-, 2013
  8. Space between twin tunnels (work for "Visceral Sensation" at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa), Kanazawa city ,Japan, 2013
Awards
  1. WA Award Winners, 49. Cycle, 2025
  2. WA Award Winners, 26. Cycle, World Architecture Community, 2017
  3. American Architecture Prize:firm of the year 2017,shortlist, AAP, 2017
  4. A+Awards 2017, Finalist, Architizer, 2017
  5. 2016 ARCHITECTURE ASIA AWARDS FOR EMERGING ARCHITECHT Winner, Architecture Asia, 2016
  6. WA Award Winners, 23. Cycle , World Architecture Community, 2016
  7. WA Award Winners, 22. Cycle , World Architecture Community, 2016
  8. A+Awards 2015, Architizer, 2015
  9. WA Award Winners, 19. Cycle , World Architecture Community, 2015
  10. 2014 ARCHITECTURE ASIA AWARDS FOR EMERGING ARCHITECHT, ARCHITECTURE ASIA, 2014
  11. designboom　TOP 10 reader submissions of 2014 – architecture, designboom, 2014
  12. AR Awards for Emerging Architecture 2014 /Highly commended, Architectural Review Magazine, 2014
  13. Blueprint Awards 2014　Commended, Blueprint Magazine, 2014
  14. AZ AWARD for design excellence 2014　(Best Architecture Under 1,000㎡)　WINNER, AZURE Magazine, 2014
  15. International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture 2014 , Faith & Form magazine and The Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA) , 2014
  16. International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture 2013, Faith & Form magazine and The Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA), 2013
  17. WA Award Winners, 13. Cycle, World Architecture Community, 2013
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese government
  1. Project title: Creation of new Satoyama based on both analysis of artificial transition and history of Satoyama environment and field experiment in Satoyama
    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
    Project number: 17K00696
    Project period: 2017-2019
    Total budget amount: 4,810,000 yen
    Keywords:

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Social activities

Committee roles
  1. 2014年度日本建築学会設計競技「建築のいのち」審査委員, 日本建築学会, 2014

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