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Katsuhiro MIYAMOTO & Associates

If you were around universities in the 1980s, you'll recall a lot of back-and-forth on the topic of "center" and
"periphery". One interesting question would often come up: where did Japan fit in all this? Or, more accurately: where was Tokyo-center or periphery? Japan's capital always had this sense of scaling strangely. At the end of the Cold War, Europe and the US piloted the world to a degree that seems unthinkable today-but even as Japan was on the edge of all that political action, its capital city, Tokyo, was fixed firmly within a tiny trio of global centers with international financial, industrial and cultural impact, along with London and New York. Tokyo was a major force, changing everyone's music-even changing how we listened. Changing our cars, fashion, art, architecture. Japan's infrastructure for its influential architecture was pretty much entirely concentrated in Tokyo. By the 1980s, dominant construction contractors-even Takenaka, rooted in Japan's second city of Osaka for centuries-found it necessary to have a strong presence in the capital. Preeminent design professionals of every sort clustered in Tokyo, too: architects, structural engineers, lighting consultants. Part of Tadao Ando's reputation as a headstrong outsider was simply due to the fact that he remained a long way away from Tokyo, working in his hometown of Osaka. Japan's media, its architecture magazines and leading television production, too, was in the capital. There emerged an awkward gap. Tokyo was a global player, set in an inward-oriented nation still strongly aware of the value of tenacious traditions. This split fed dramatic tensions between the sprawling city and the countryside beyond the capital. It sometimes seemed that Tokyo's architects had greater influence in cities like San Francisco and Sydney than in Sendai and Sapporo. You can see the same situation in other places today-Seoul, say. A strong center out of step with people on the periphery. In 1980s Japan things many people loved seemed to be of little importance to the architects who were the country's leading lights. People in second-tier cities and small towns still slept on tatami floors and scrubbed their cemeteries on Obon, while Tokyoites flew off to foreign nations for quick, exotic trips. Roof thatch and careful carpentry lined rural roads, not even legal for the streetfronts of big cities.
_Text by Dana Buntrock

Katsuhiro MIYAMOTO
1961 Born in Hyogo Prefecture
1984 Bachelors of Architecture, University of Tokyo
1987 Masters of Architecture, University of Tokyo
1988 Established Atelier Cinquieme Architects
1995 Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Osaka University of Arts
2002 Reorganized to Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates
2008 Professor, Graduate School of Engineering and Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University

[Major Awards]
2010 Excellent Prize, Renovation Proposal for Ichihara City Art Museum "Water and Sculpture Hills", JAPAN
2010 Grand Prize, Japan Federation of Architects & Building Engineers Association Awards, JAPAN
2011 Annual Architectural Design Commendation by Architectural Institute of Japan, JAPAN
2012 Grand Prize, AICHI-MACHINAMI Architectural Award, JAPAN
2001, 03, 04, 07, 08 Good Design Awards, JAPAN <"House Surgery">
2002, 04, 05, 08, 10, 11, 12 Selected Architectural Designs of the Architectural Institute of Japan, JAPAN <"House Surgery">
2005, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11 Japan Institute of Architects Selected Works, JAPAN <"HANKAI" HOUSE>

[Major Publication written in English]
2010 "Grown" flick studio (JAPAN)
2011 "Twelve houses restored in Japan and Italy" ARACNE (ITALY)
2011 "KANSAI6" Equal Books (KOREA)
2012 "Katsuhiro Miyamoto" Libria (ITALY)

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