Architecture & Design

Jenn Kitagawa

Jenn Kitagawa is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who grew up in the city of Edmonton as well as the southern farmlands surrounding Taber, Alberta. She is of Japanese descent and is 4th generation, or Yonsei and Scottish. Graduating from MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, Alberta), she […]

Henry Takatsu

William (Henry) Takatsu was born on 1927 in Haney, BC (now Maple Ridge) the second youngest of seven siblings to parents (strawberry and vegetable farmers), Shunsuke and Tatsu Takatsu (nee Mitsuhashi), who were originally from Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. During the Federal government internment, his family was relocated to the Franco-Manitoban community of La Rochelle, […]

Robert Yamashita

Robert Noboru Yamashita is a retired architect. He worked for the City of Toronto from 1968 to 2000, where he was the lead figure for homelessness, poverty, mental health, and housing issues. He is currently exploring a practice as an abstract painter and photographer.

Laura Suzuki

Laura Suzuki is a graphic designer with a multidisciplinary background, including biological psychology, science writing, and print and web design. She co-founded the company Doodletronics with illustrator Peter Cook, which specializes in web communications and also produces books about science, nature, and the environment for children.

Sandra Sasaki

Sandra Sasaki is a Winnipeg-based interior designer. After receiving her Bachelor of Interior Design from the University of Manitoba, she worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, Eaton’s, and her own Sasaki Design Inc., as well as being a Business Developer for LM Architectural Group. She received a Design Canada Award of Merit from the National […]

Takashi Yamashita

Takashi Yamashita is an architect who operates in the corporate world of commercial real estate, finance, and development. A partner and president at Takol Real Estate in Toronto, he is also a member of both the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Manitoba Association of Architects. Born in Manitoba, he received his BES (Architecture) […]

Harvey Okawara

Harvey Hideo Okawara was an architect, born in Vancouver, BC, and interned in Tashme, before moving to Toronto where he completed high school and attended the University of Toronto. He worked at various private architectural firms and for 25 years worked for the Federal government in the formerly named Department of Defence, and Department of […]

Alan Nakatsui

Alan Nakatsui is an architect based in Lake Country, BC. Born in Alberta, he began his career there with the Calgary-based firm Bathory Associates after receiving a BSC in Civil Engineering (1975) and a Master of Environmental Design in Architecture (1986) from the University of Calgary. Projects in Alberta include hotels, townhouses, and the Chula […]

Dennis Tanaka

Dennis Tanaka is an award-winning Toronto-based architect and president of Dennis K. Tanaka, Architect Inc. Born in British Columbia, he received his Bachelor of Architecture from McGill in 1968. He has been responsible for numerous additions, renovations, and master plans for community buildings around Ontario, and has received provincial and national masonry awards for design […]

Tom Motomochi

Tom Motomochi is an architect with a long career with the Toronto-based Moriyama & Teshima firm. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1962, and went on to study architecture at the University of Toronto, graduating from there in 1967. He has worked on many buildings […]

Joe Naito

Joe Naito was an architect who practiced for over forty years in Edmonton. He was born and raised in Kelowna, BC, and studied architecture at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1957. He practiced privately through the firm Sinclair & Naito Architects Limited in Edmonton, and worked on projects throughout Alberta including the University […]

Margaret Ishii

Margaret Ishii is a Toronto-based architect and university lecturer in interior design. She holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture from the University of Waterloo, and has over thirty years’ experience as an architect, working on projects such as the redevelopment of the Pearson Airport’s Terminals One and Two, Fredericton Medical Centre, and a number […]

Hiroshi Harada

Hiroshi Harada is a Toronto-based landscape architect of Harada Landscaping Limited. He was born and educated in Japan, graduating from the Faculty of Horticulture of Chiba University in 1970. He designed a number of landscapes for private residences in and around the Toronto area in the 1980s and 1990s, several of which were featured in […]

Stanley Hiroaki Osaka

Stanley Hiroaki Osaka was born on July 23, 1931 in Richmond, British Columbia, to Otokichi and Midori Osaka. During the Second World War, he and his parents and sister, Kimiko, were interned at Tashme Internment Camp, British Columbia, by order of the Canadian Government. After the war, he relocated to Montreal to attend McGill University, […]

Tomizo Yamamoto

Tomizo Yamamoto is an independent architect based in North Vancouver, who trained in both Japan (BArch, Waseda University) and Canada (M.Arch, UBC). He has designed a number of commercial, residential, and institutional projects in and around Vancouver, including Phase I of the Chinese Cultural Centre (won by competition), Royal Oak College and Dormitories, and Shaughnessy […]