City

Tokyo

Name: Tokyo
Address: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

A laboratory for fine-grained contemporary practice, where lightweight domestic, institutional, and office experiments continually reshape the discipline.

Tokyo, Japan

Asia/Tokyo

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Abeno-ku

Abeno-ku, Japan

1 works

Abeno-ku enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Abeno-ku, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Aoba-ku

Aoba-ku, Japan

1 works

Aoba-ku enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Aoba-ku, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Asahikawa

Asahikawa, Japan

1 works

Asahikawa enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Asahikawa, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Bandaijima

Bandaijima, Japan

1 works

Bandaijima enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Bandaijima, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Beppu

Beppu, Japan

1 works

Beppu enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Beppu, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Bunkyō-ku

Bunkyō-ku, Japan

1 works

Bunkyō-ku enters the saved.archi corpus as a place layer in Bunkyō-ku, Japan, grounding works in a specific urban and geographic context.

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Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center in Tokyo, Japan

Gallery

Tokyo gallery

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center image

Building in Tokyo, Japan

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Architects

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Jobs

Recent roles currently indexed for this city

Job

Architectural Designer

SANAA · Tokyo, Japan

architectural design · in person · mid

saved.archi seed · portfolio

architectural design · museum · public circulation

museumcultural building

Posted Sat Apr 04

Job

Model Maker

SANAA · Tokyo, Japan

model making · in person · junior

saved.archi seed · portfolio

model making · museum · model studies

museuminstallation

Posted Thu Apr 02

Works

Built and cited precedents currently placed in this city

Work

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center

1967 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Office building

Kenzo Tange

Work

Tama Art University Library

2007 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Education building

Toyo Ito

Work

Nezu Museum

2009 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Museum

Kengo Kuma

Work

Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

2012 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tourist information center

Kengo Kuma

Bureaus

Practices currently based in this city

Bureau

Arata Isozaki & Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1963

Arata Isozaki & Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Arata Isozaki's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1981

Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Hiroshi Naito's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1979

Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Itsuko Hasegawa's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Kengo Kuma & Associates

bureau · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1990

A Tokyo bureau whose museums, civic buildings, and urban infill projects often translate timber, texture, and layered thresholds into contemporary public architecture.

Bureau

Kenzo Tange Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1946

Kenzo Tange Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Kenzo Tange's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1962

Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Kisho Kurokawa's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Kiyonori Kikutake Architect and Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1962

Kiyonori Kikutake Architect and Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Kiyonori Kikutake's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Maki and Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1965

Maki and Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Fumihiko Maki's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Mayekawa Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1935

Mayekawa Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Kunio Maekawa's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

SANAA

bureau · Tokyo, Japan

1995

The collaborative office of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, known for quietly radical public buildings and highly refined domestic space.

Bureau

Shigeru Ban Architects

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1985

Shigeru Ban Architects extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Shigeru Ban's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1971

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Toyo Ito's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Bureau

Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1975

Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Yoshio Taniguchi's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.

Architects

Architects currently based in this city

Architect

Arata Isozaki

1931-2022 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Arata Isozaki was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Architect

Fumihiko Maki

1928-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95.

Architect

Hiroshi Naito

Born 1950 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Naito is an architect from Japan, known for his modern-style buildings. His work includes projects in other countries. He is the principal architect at Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates in Tokyo. He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and President of Tama Art University

Architect

Itsuko Hasegawa

Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Itsuko Hasegawa is a Japanese architect.

Architect

Kazuyo Sejima

Born 1956 · Tokyo, Japan

An architect whose work often pursues lightness, permeability, and subtle social choreography through pared-down forms.

Architect

Kengo Kuma

Born 1954 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

A Japanese architect whose work often softens civic and cultural buildings through wood, screens, layered thresholds, and close attention to urban atmosphere.

Architect

Kenzo Tange

1913-2005 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, partic…

Architect

Kisho Kurokawa

1934-2007 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kisho Kurokawa was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement.

Architect

Kiyonori Kikutake

1928-2011 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyonori Kikutake was a prominent Japanese architect known as one of the founders of the Japanese Metabolist group. He was also the tutor and employer of several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.

Architect

Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…

Architect

Ryue Nishizawa

Born 1966 · Tokyo, Japan

A Japanese architect whose work explores openness, fine-grained structural order, and unusually soft boundaries between rooms and landscapes.

Architect

Shigeru Ban

Born 1957 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovati…

Architect

Toyo Ito

Born 1941 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" city, and has been called "one of the world's most innovative and in…

Architect

Yoshio Taniguchi

1937-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshio Taniguchi was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous ph…

Books

Books linked through local works, bureaus, or architects

Book

SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA, Mohsen Mostafavi · 2006

Actar · Barcelona

lightness · museums · open plans