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First-class Registered Architect Office HOSOO architecture Co., Ltd.: Registration number: Registered by Prefectural Governor of Kyoto (05A), No. 03530; Licensed managing architect: Naohisa Hosoo; Date of registration: May 1, 2023; Office: Agora Higashiyama 111, Yumiyacho 72, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0817, Japan; Mail: mail@hosoo-architecture.com

Profile

Naohisa Hosoo: Born in Milan in 1981 and grew up in Kyoto. Naohisa studied at the Institute of International Center for Human Sciences, Kindai University, and graduated from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. After studying at Politecnico di Milano, he joined David Chipperfield Architects. Upon returning to Japan from Italy, he established HOSOO architecture in Kyoto in 2015. He aspires to an architecture that generously embraces intractable contradictions.; Instagram

Awards

2021 -iF DESIGN AWARD 2021 ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
2021 -Red Dot Award 2021 Product Design awards
2020 -Silver Prize of KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2020
2020 -Encouragement Prize of The 8th Kyoto Architecture Award
2018 -Encouragement Prize of The 6th Kyoto Architecture Award

Print publication

GA JAPAN 195
Kenchiku ga umareru tokoro (Where architecture is born)—Architecture Pass Kyoto Document Book
Sustainable Gastronomy Research Archive Book–2023
“The Possibility of Texture in the 21st Century” (dialogue: Koichi Kato x Naohisa Hosoo), More than Textile issue 2
“Preserving Tradition in 2030,” Architecture and Society, August 2022 issue
“Furniture as Utopia” (written by Naohisa Hosoo), LAB express vol. 4 for CONSTRUCTION NO. 1 ENSEMBLE
Shinkenchiku, September 2021 issue for HOSOO FLAGSHIP STORE
Annual of Spatial Design in Japan 2021: Displays, Signs & Commercial Spaces for HOSOO FLAGSHIP STORE
BRUTUS, December 1, 2019, issue (Feature: Japanese Hotels) for HOSOO RESIDENCE
Shotenkenchiku, December 2018 issue (Feature: HOTEL) for HOSOO RESIDENCE

Online publication