Architecture Program

Acquire advanced, reliable skills and the creativity to design beautiful living environments
How to create and maintain comfortable, safe, affluent residential environments is both a goal and a significant concern in architecture. However, new issues have arisen in recent years, including the trend toward an aging society with fewer children, the information society, internationalization, and the ethics of architectural engineers. This program helps students acquire a wide-ranging vision and advanced, specialized expertise and skills related to architecture and gives them an international orientation so they can devise solutions for the serious issues mentioned above.
- Follow the tradition of architectural education of the Koshu Gakko, and acquire practical architectural, urban and environmental planning and design skills that meet diverse social requirements.
- Develop suitable architectural proposal skills that take a global view and are based on an understanding of specific cultural settings and their history, as well as environmental requirements.
- Acquire advanced, specialized expertise along with pre-existing knowledge of architecture and urban planning, cultivate the skills to investigate and analyze with broad discernment, and resolve problems.
- Develop the skills to provide creative proposals based on profound knowledge pertaining to the artistic and historical nature of architecture and urban planning.
- Develop occupational skills related to architecture and urban design, and understand the social missions that come with those skills.
- Understand the techniques and planning—including structures, construction methods and implementation—that ensure the safety and security of architecture and urban planning.
- Understand the importance of a sustainable society from the standpoints of the environment, economy and society, and develop the expertise and skills to achieve that.
- Cultivate the integrated skills needed to carry out architectural and urban development, including managing every aspect from planning to project execution as well as making adjustments for social and economic restrictions and requirements.
- Develop the skills to demonstrate leadership in presenting one’s ideas to wider society, and to collaborate with specialists from other fields and the general public.
- Continuously study research design and planning methods through cooperation between faculty and students.
Research fields
- Architectural planning, architectural design, history of architecture, design theory, residential design, preservation, restoration and renovation
- Urban planning and design, environmental design, landscape planning, urban maintenance, disaster prevention and crime prevention in urban areas, town planning
- Seismic engineering, structural design, earthquake disaster prevention, wooden structures, reinforced concrete structures, steel structures, various kinds of structural engineering
- Construction method planning, building production, building economics and materials, architectural environmental engineering, building facilities engineering, architectural acoustics
Teacher’s licenses and curator's credentials available:
- Specialized senior high school teacher’s certificate (technical)
- Curator’s credentials
Research Fields and Topics, Educational Keywords

Curriculum system

Laboratories
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[Research fields: Design and architecture] ITO Laboratory
Hiroyuki ITO
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Architectural Design Laboratory
Toru KASHIHARA
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Yoko Kinoshita Laboratory
Yoko Kinoshita WATANABE
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Shiomi Laboratory
Ichiro SHIOMI
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Tominaga Laboratory
Hiroko TOMINAGA
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Architectural Design, Community Design
Rikuo NISHIMORI
Professor -
[Research fields: Design and architecture] Fujiki Studio
Ryumei FUJIKI
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Urban Design Laboratory
Arata ENDO
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Landscape Design
Kenta SHINOZAWA
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Landscape Design
Akihiro SHIMODA
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Urban Design
Yasushi NOZAWA
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Fujiga Laboratory
Masato FUJIGA
Associate Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Urban Design
Takashi HOSHI
Professor -
[Research fields: Urban planning and urban design] Disaster Prevention and Security Planning
Masahiro MURAKAMI
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural planning] Planning and Design for Healthcare Facilities
Atsuo KAKEHI
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural planning] Architectural Planning and Design
Kentaro SAKAINO
Associate Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural planning] Suzuki Laboratory
Toshihiko SUZUKI
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural planning] Architectural Planning & Design
Tetsuro YAMASHITA
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural history and conservation management design] Preservation and Conservation Design
Shiro OUCHIDA
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural history and conservation management design] Preservation and Conservation Design
Tomoaki NAKASHIMA
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural history and conservation management design] Preservation and Conservation Design
Kosei HATSUDA
Associate Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural structure] Architectural Structures
Norikazu ONOZATO
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural structure] Architectural Structures
Naohito KAWAI
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural structure] Disaster Prevention and Security Planning
Yoshiaki HISADA
Professor -
[Research fields: Architectural structure] Architectural Structures
Tetsuo YAMASHITA
Professor -
[Research fields: Building construction and management] Building Production
Kazuyoshi ENDO
Professor -
[Research fields: Building construction and management] Building Production
Sumie SUZUKI
Professor -
[Research fields: Building construction and management] Building Production
Masaki TAMURA
Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Building Equipment
Eisuke TOGASHI
Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Ecological planning
Yusuke NAKAJIMA
Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Ecological planning
Yukari HIRAYAMA
Associate Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Building Equipment
Toyohiro NISHIKAWA
Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Building Equipment
Tatsuo NOBE
Professor -
[Research fields: Environmental facilities] Building Equipment
U YANAGI
Professor