Architecture & Design

Junichi Hashimoto

Junichi Hashimoto is a retired architect and active watercolor painter. He graduated from the school of architecture in Kyoto in 1962 and came to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1966 through the Japan Architects Association’s Young Architect Exchange Program with Canadian architects. He worked as project architect for GBR Associates on various projects such as the hospital […]

Ernie Yamaoka

Ernest (Ernie) Nobuichi Yamaoka was born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. At fifteen, on December 25, 1920, he made the lonely and arduous sea voyage to Victoria, British Columbia. He began his life in Canada as a houseboy and through hard work and determination earned a high school Governor General’s medal award and a University of […]

Daniel Teramura

Daniel Teramura is a Toronto-based architect and partner at Moriyama & Teshima. He has been with the firm since 1986, and worked on many of their high-profile projects such as the Saudi Arabia National Museum, Lakehead University’s New LEED Platinum Academic Building, and Vari Hall at York University. His specialty is architecture for higher education, […]

Bruce Kuwabara

Bruce Kuwabara is one of the most celebrated and influential architects in Canada, and a founding partner of the internationally recognized KPMB firm. His awards include being made an Officer of the Order of Canada, numerous Governor General’s Awards, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal, and other honours. He has designed public and […]

James Jun (Jim) Koyanagi

James Koyanagi was a Burlington-based architect and a founding partner of the Svedas-Koyanagi Architects firm. He was responsible for the design of such notable buildings as the Burlington City Hall, the Royal Botanical Gardens, and the University of Toronto Athletic Centre, among many other buildings throughout Ontario. Born on Sea Island, Vancouver, Koyanagi was a […]

Jack Kobayashi

John “Jack” Kobayashi was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1963. During the Second World War, Jack’s mother’s family was interned at Tashme and his dad’s family ended up in Blind Bay at a self-supporting site struggling through various hardships to make ends meet. Both families had hoped to move to Toronto. However, the Toronto Ban […]

Roy Matsui

Roy Matsui is the architect responsible for the Momiji Seniors Centre in Scarborough, Ontario, as well as many other projects throughout his decades-long career, including hotels, condominiums, and office buildings in and around Toronto, as well as Richview Library, and the Wallace Emerson Community Centre. He was awarded a Governor General’s Medal in 1980 and […]

Ted Teshima

Ted Teshima was born in Sea Island, British Columbia on Sept. 4, 1938. While in high school, he was inspired by a book about Frank Lloyd Wright and chose to pursue architecture as a career. He graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto in 1962 and went on to become partner […]

Ajon Moriyama

Ajon Moriyama is an award-winning independent architect based in Toronto. With a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carleton University, he worked at his father Raymond Moriyama’s architecture firm, Moriyama and Teshima Architects and Planners, until 2013, taking part in over 60 award-winning projects. He has collaborated with his father and his brother, Jason, also an […]

Jason Moriyama

Jason Moriyama is an award-winning architect based in Toronto who specializes in cultural buildings and university design. Educated in Ottawa, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, Moriyama has built his career at the architectural firm co-founded by his father, the legendary architect Raymond Moriyama: Moriyama & Teshima Architects, where he is currently a partner and lead design […]

Raymond Moriyama

Raymond Moriyama is one of Canada’s most renowned architects of the twentieth century. After completing his studies at the University of Toronto and McGill, Moriyama began working as an architect in 1958, with projects such as the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the Ontario Science Centre. In 1970, Moriyama and fellow architect Ted Teshima joined […]

Kerry Nagata

Kerry Nagata is a Calgary-based architect. He holds a BA in Urban Geography from the University of Alberta and a Master of Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Calgary. Early in his career, Nagata worked on corporate buildings in Canada and Russia, and later joined the Calgary firm Marshall Tittemore in 2001. In […]

Gene Kinoshita

“Gene Kinoshita is a retired architect who worked in the Toronto area. For forty years, he was a founding principal of Moffatt Kinoshita Architects. He got his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia and his Master of Architecture at Yale University. He worked extensively on projects with the University of Western Ontario […]

Beverly Horii

Beverly Horii is a Toronto-based architect, and the managing director and principal at IA Interior Architects in Toronto. Horii holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, and worked on a number of prominent corporate renovation projects, as well as designs for the National Association of Japanese […]

Robert Hirano

Robert Hirano is a Lethbridge-based architect who specializes in heritage preservation and conservation of historic and heritage sites with his firm, rkh architecture. They have worked on a variety of projects in public, industrial, commercial, and institutional settings, including the Raymond Community Centre, Lethbridge Fire Hall No. 1, Lethbridge Main Street (Lethbridge’s historic downtown), University […]