Lecturer
Hiroto Kobayashi小林 博人
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Professor
Graduate School of Media and Governance /
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Hiroto Kobayashi studied architecture and urban design at Kyoto University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He has worked with Nikken Sekkei and Norman Foster and Partners as an architect. He completed his doctoral dissertation on Japanese traditional community form, and received a Doctor of Design degree from the GSD, where he served as a visiting associate through 2003-2004.
Dr. Kobayashi is a founding partner of Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop (KMDW), an architectural and urban design firm based in Tokyo. He also represents the American architectural firm, Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM), in Japan. KMDW’s work encompasses a full range of design scales, from furniture and interiors to large building complexes and urban design. Projects include work for cities and communities in Japan, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Palau, and Peru. Most recently KMDW and Kobayashi’s laboratory at Keio University have been developing a design-build methodology using engineered wood. This approach was inspired and initiated by the Tohoku disaster of 2011. Current projects of Keio include a dormitory and a laboratory designed and constructed mainly by the students of Keio SFC as student based project called Student-Build Campus or SBC
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JIA, Doctor of Design
Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance / Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Principal, Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop