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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 […]

Takuro Kamata

Takuro Kamata (1939-) is an artist who worked primarily in traditional Japanese methods of textile design and woodblock prints. Originally from Miyagi prefecture in Japan, Kamata studied economics and got a job in the insurance business. At this time, he also pursued his interest in arts and crafts, and eventually studied woodcut printmaking under Toshi […]

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 […]

Vincent Noguchi

Vincent Noguchi is a photographer. Born and raised in Toronto by two creative parents, Vince Noguchi found a passion in photography that quickly consumed his life. Starting early with his mother’s plastic point-and-shoot, Vince soon acquired his dad’s beautiful old Kodak and then his own Fuji 701. A darkroom followed, and a lifelong love grew […]

Tomoko Kodama

Tomoko Kodama was a sumi-e painter born in Tokyo. She first discovered her love of art in high school, and went on to study nihonga painting in university. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1957. Kodama immigrated to Canada with her husband, Hideomi Kodama, in 1962. They were planning on staying only […]

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Yamamoto is a nihonga and sumi-e painter. His artist name is ‘Hakuho.’ Yamamoto was born in Shiga prefecture in Japan. He graduated from the Kyoto Industrial Design Institute and the Kyoto Japanese Art School, where he studied Japanese Traditional Art – Nihonga, Sumi-e and Art History. He was awarded the Ruth Yamada Award in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]