Architecture & Design

David Fujiwara

David Fujiwara is a Toronto-based architect who runs a consulting firm specializing in building and space design. In the over thirty years that he has run his firm, Fujiwara has designed houses, health centres, offices, and museum exhibits throughout the Toronto region including the JCCC Resource Centre exhibit design. Fujiwara curated and wrote the text […]

Real (Akazawa) Eguchi

Real Eguchi is a Toronto-based landscape architect with over 25 years of experience in his field in Canada, Asia, and the Middle East. He is the Managing Principal of Eguchi Associated Landscape Architects, which is committed to sustainable design that facilitates harmonious and mutually healing relationships between humans and their natural environment. His company has […]

Ronald Kato

Ronald Kato is a Bowen Island-based architect who specializes in sustainable design. Born in Quebec, he got his degree in architecture from McGill University, and worked on a variety of corporate and private architectural projects in Montreal, as well as the Canadian Museum of Civilization as the Project Architect through the Douglas Cardinal Architect firm. […]

Joni Inouye

Joni Inouye is a Toronto-based interior designer who worked with Moriyama & Teshima Architects. Born in Japan, she studied architectural technology at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and went on to design such interiors as the Scarborough Civic Centre (1969), the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library (1973), the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (1986); the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa […]

Bart Uchida

Bart Shigeru Uchida is a Sansei sculptor and multimedia artist. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Uchida has studied and worked in Canada and Italy, and currently shares his time living between the United States and Argentina. His work has evolved from carving to include large scale installations, performance art and public and community artworks. He has […]

Nobuo Kubota

Nobuo Kubota was born on June 27, 1932 in Vancouver BC. He has degree in architecture from the University of Toronto. He practiced architecture for 10 years before becoming an artist. He is also a musician, sound artist and sound singer. As an artist, he has a tendency to work in isolation and remains outside […]

John Ota

John Ota M.S., B.Arch., B.A., is a proud Japanese Canadian who has had a varied career in the architect and design world in Canada. He has writing expertise in the field, possessing an academic background in contemporary architecture and historic preservation, as well as possessing exhibition curator skills and skills in architectural design. John has […]

Kiyoshi Izumi

Kiyoshi Izumi was a Nisei architect who spent most of his career in Saskatchewan, where he designed many notable buildings in the province, particularly during the 1960s, as part of his firm Izumi, Arnott, and Sugiyama. Born in Vancouver, Izumi graduated from Vancouver Technical School, and during the internment, studied at Regina College in Regina, […]

Ken Fukushima

Ken Fukushima is a Toronto-based architect who has designed such projects as the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Jane-Sheppard branch of the Toronto Public Library, Seneca College Markham Campus building, and a pavilion for the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. After receiving his B.Arch at Carleton University and his M. Arch. from Cranbook Academy of […]

Kiyoshi Matsuzaki

Kiyoshi Matsuzaki was an architect. He was born in Shanghai, China to parents from Steveston, BC, and grew up in Tokyo. At age 18, Matsuzaki began his architectural studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, and worked at a firm in Hamden, Connecticut for some years after graduation, where he met his wife, fellow […]

Banri Nakamura

Banri Nakamura was born in Tokyo, and moved close to Kyoto to escape the air raids of the Second world war which caused the deaths of his father, grandfather, aunt, and uncle. After ten years of country life, Nakamura moved back to Tokyo, and studied at a Industrial art technical high school where he specialized […]

Peter Wakayama

Peter Hiroshi Wakayama is a retired architect born in Pt. Hammond, B.C. on August 28 1936. During the war, Wakayama was interned with family at Hasting Park, Vancouver, B.C., and in the interior of B.C. at Tashme, Roseberry, and New Denver. After the war, the family moved east to Chatham, Ontario where Wakayama went to […]

Kanau Uyeyama

Kanau Uyeyama is a Vancouver-based architect who has run his own firm, Architecton, with the help of his wife, chief researcher Mary Todd, for over forty years. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia in 1957, and since then has designed numerous corporate and research facilities, schools, offices, and private […]

Takashi Tsuji

Takashi Tsuji is a Toronto-based architect. Born in Japan, he received his Bachelor of Environmental Studies and Master of Architecture from the University of Manitoba, in 1974 and 1977, respectively. In 1980, he founded Takashi Tsuji Architects, and has been working on private, commercial, and institutional projects ever since. Some of his projects include the […]

Tamotsu Tongu

Tamotsu Tongu is a landscape architect, the president of Toko Garden Design based in Burnaby, BC. Born in Japan, he received certification in civil engineering, in the Saga school of ikebana, gardening, and master of landscape gardening, as well as a Bachelor’s degree from the Tokyo University of Agriculture for Landscape Architecture in 1979. After […]