archipro architects is a design-oriented studio for architecture, urban, planning and design led by Hideki Yoshimatsu and partners since 1987. The firm has been recognized with numerous awards, publications and exhibitions for quality and excellence in design.

Especially, 3 projects with Haizuka Earthworks and "hula house" have been internationally awarded, ar+d Award, Dedalo Minosse International Prize, American Wood Design Award, International Architecture Award and so on.

Our philosophy of integration is shown in these projects.

Hideki Yoshimatsu is a professor at Tokai University where he has taught since 1998. He teaches Architectural Design, Landscape Design, and Urban Theory. And he studies a design research in architecture and urban space using "resolution" and "matiere" as a parameter.

Both aspects are included in the design concept of our works.

 

Principle Awards :

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS (2009 USA)

Architectural Wood Design Award (2008 Japan)

Barbara Cappochin Prize, Special Prize for detail, Best Works (2007,Italy)

WORLD Space Creators Awards 2005, (2005 Japan)

Architecture+ Awards 2004 Finalist (2004 UAE)

Dedalo Minosse International Prize, Special Prize (2004, Italy)

ar+d Award, Grand Prize (2002, UK & Denmark)

American Wood Design Awards, Grand Prize, Merit Award (2002, USA & Japan)

Canadian Green Design Award, Grand Prize (2002, Canada & Japan)

JIA Awards for the Best Young Architects of the Year 1999 (1999, Japan)

Sendai Mediatheque Competition, Honorable Mention (1995, Japan)

SD Review, SD Award (1994, Japan)

SD Review, SD Award (1989. Japan)

 

Principle Projects :

aluminum house (2008, Kanagawa, Japan)

hula house (2007, Tokyo, Japan)

Glass Bridge  (2007, Hiroshima, Mirasaka)

Aimai (2005, Tokyo, Japan) / Tokyo House  (2001, Tokyo, Japan)

Earthworks Center  (2000, Hiroshima, Japan)

Mirasaka Ceramics Studio (2000,Hiroshima, Japan)

Cemetery for the Unknown  (1998, Hiroshima, Japan)

Uto Marina House (1998, Kumamoto, Japan)

Haizuka Earthworks Projects  (1996, Hiroshima, Japan)

Ohta Complex (1996, Tokyo, Japan)

GY-Project  (1994, Fukuoka, Japan)

Ono Dental Office   (1993, Tokyo, Japan)

Miyazaki Golf Club House & Hotel (1993, Miyazaki, Japan)

Ohta Annex (1990, Tokyo, Japan)

 

Principle Exhibitions : 

AN EXHIBITION OF THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE (2009 Florence, Italy)

PARALLEL NIPPON Contemporary Japanese Architecture (2006 Tokyo, Japan & others)

Dedalo Minosse International Prize (2004 Palladian Basilica Vicenza, Itary)

'45 under 45' - Young Japanese Architecture  (2004, MoMAS, Saitama, Japan )

Emerging Architecture  (2003, RIBA Gallery, London, UK)

'45 under 45' - Young Japanese Architecture  (2002, Wien, Austria)

Virtual Architecture  (1997, TOKYO UNIV., Tokyo, Japan )

The Mirage city – another Utopia -  (1997, NTT.ICC, Tokyo, Japan)

The Gate of the Present  (1992, Traveling exhibition)

SPIRAL Take Art Collection (1991, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan)

 

Principle Publications : 

 2012 Architecture Report, (2012, H.K. RIHAN INT'L CULTURE SPREAD LIMITED, Hong Kong) / Glass Bridge

2012 Comfortable houses, H.K.  (2012, RIHAN INT'L CULTURE SPREAD LIMITED, Hong Kong) / Hula House

ARCHITECTURE ZONE Ⅱ, (2010, H.K. RIHAN INT'L CULTURE SPREAD LIMITED, Hong Kong) / hula house

Renovated Spaces: New Life for Old Homes, (2010, Loft Publications, Spain) / Aluminum house

LANDSCAPE DESIGN (2008, HarperCollins, USA)

PARALLEL NIPPON Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996-2006 (2006, Shinkenchiku, Japan)

Ultimate Landscape Design (2006, teNeues, Spain)

The Phaidon Atlas of  Contemporary World Architecture (2004 Phaidon, UK)

'45under45' Young Japanese Architecture  (2002 Wien Stadtische Collaboration, Austria)

Mapping Architect: Hideki Yoshimatsu  (1999, Space9905 Special Issue, KOREA)

Mirage City: Another Utopia (1998, NTT, Japan)

Virtual Architecture   (1997, TOKYO UNIV., Japan)

The Gate of The Present (1992, LEGO, Denmark)

 

Address :

3-6-16-104 Kitazawa Setagaya Tokyo, JAPAN 155-0031

phone 81-(0)3-5453-5081   fax 81-(0)3-5453-5082

web http://www.archipro.net/    e-mail archipro@bd6.so-net.ne.jp