Hiroshi Hara

• Name — Hiroshi Hara • Birth Name — Hiroshi Hara • Born — 9 September 1936 • Birthplace — Kawasaki, Japan • Died — 3 January 2025 • Place of death — Japan • Significant Buildings — * Umeda Sky Building • Kyōto Station • Education — University of Tokyo • Illustration — Kyōto Station, Kyoto, Japan

Hiroshi Hara was born on 9 September 1936. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a BA in 1959, and subsequently earned an MA in 1961 and a PhD in 1964, also from the University of Tokyo. He became an associate professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1964 and an associate professor at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo in 1969. He attended Harvard University's Summer Seminar in 1968. He collaborated with Atelier Φ for design practices from 1970. In 1982, Hara became professor at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo, and in 1997, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He changed the designation to "Hiroshi Hara + Atelier Φ" from 1999. Hara died on 3 January 2025, at the age of 88.

• 1974: Hara House, Tokyo • 1986: Tasaki Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Nagano • 1987: Naha Municipal Josei Primary School, Naha, Okinawa • 1987: Yamato International, Ōta, Tokyo • 1987: Kenju Park 'Forest House', Nakaniida, Miyagi Prefecture • 1988: Iida City Museum, Iida, Nagano Prefecture • 1992: Uchiko Municipal Ose Middle School, Uchiko, Ehime • 1993: Umeda Sky Building, Kita-ku, Osaka • 1997: Kyoto Station Complex, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto • 1998: Miyagi Prefectural Library, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture • 2000: Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi High School, Hiroshima • 2001: Sapporo Dome, Sapporo, Hokkaidō • 2001: University of Tokyo, Komaba II Campus, Tokyo • 2003: Tokamachi Stage, Tokamachi, Niigata • 2004: Casa Experimental, Montevideo, Uruguay • 2005: Casa Experimental, Cordoba, Argentina • 2005: Shimokita Snow-Resistant Dome, Mutsu, Aomori • 2007: Aizu Gakuho Middle School and High School, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture • 2010: Casa Experimental, La Paz, Bolivia