Hiroshi Naito
Born August 26, 1950 is an architect from Japan, known for his modern-style buildings. His work includes projects in other countries. He is the principal architect in Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates in Tokyo.
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Hiroshi Naito

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- Name
- Hiroshi Naito
- Born
- 26 August 1950
- Education
- Waseda University
- Awards
- Japan Architecture Association Award (1992)
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- Japanese
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Born August 26, 1950 is an architect from Japan, known for his modern-style buildings. His work includes projects in other countries. He is the principal architect in Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates in Tokyo.
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Hiroshi Naito (born 1950) is an architect, of Japanese nationality. The architect was born in Yokohama.
Hiroshi Naito was educated at Waseda University. The architect worked for University of Tokyo. Languages used include Japanese.
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He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and President of Tama Art University

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Key facts
• Name — Hiroshi Naito • Born — 26 August 1950 • Education — Waseda University • Awards — Japan Architecture Association Award (1992) • Practice — Naito Hiroshi Architectural Design Office • Significant Buildings — Toba Sea-Folk Museum Makino Botanical Garden Iwami Art Museum • Website — naitoaa.co.jp
Life and career
Life and career
Naito was born in 1950 in Yokohama, Japan. He received a M.Arch from Graduate School of Waseda University. He was chief architect at Fernand Higueras in Madrid, Spain, from 1976 to 1978, and worked at Kikutake Architects in Tokyo from 1979 to 1981. Naito established Naito Architect & Associates in 1981. Naito designed a "dog cooler" for Spitz.
Works
Works
• Toba Sea-Folk Museum, Toba, Mie, 1992 • Chihiro Art Museum, Azumino, Nagano, 1993 and 1993–97 • Autopolois Art Museum, Hita, Oita, 1993 • Wohn- und Atelierhaus, Tokyo, 1995 and 1997 • Ushibuka Fisherman's Wharf, Amakusa, Kumamoto, 1997 • Makino Botanical Garden main building and exhibition building, Kōchi, Kōchi, 1999 • Koga Municipal Park visitor center, Koga, Ibaraki, 1999 • Botanisches Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2000 • Bashamichi Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 2004 • Shimane Arts Center, Masuda, Shimane, 2005 • Takayama Station, Takayama, Gifu, 2007 • Bethlehem Library, Medellín, Colombia, 2008 • Hyūgashi Station, Hyūga, Miyazaki, 2008 • Kōchi Station, Kōchi, Kōchi, 2009 • Asahikawa Station, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, 2011 • Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Toyama, 2017 • Shibuya Station (Ginza Line), Tokyo, 2020, 2020 • Rikuzentakata City Museum, Rikuzentakata, Iwate, 2022 • Naruto City Hall, Naruto, Tokushima, 2024
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Gallery
• Illustration — Toba Sea-Folk Museum • Illustration — Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden • Illustration — Visitors' Center of Koga Municipal Park, Koga, Ibaraki • Illustration — Forest Mashiko, in Mashiko, Tochigi Japan • Illustration — Toraya in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan • Illustration — Hyugashi Station west entrance • Illustration — Entrance of the Toba Sea-Folk Museum • Illustration — Chihiro Art Museum Azumino, Nagano • Illustration — Visitor Center at Koga Municipal Park
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Life and career
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1950
Hiroshi Naito born at Yokohama.
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- 1.学長の交代について | 多摩美術大学 アクティビティニュース. 9 February 2023.
- 2.Architecture for dogs
- 3.Manuela Agudo Catalán. El romanticismo en Aragón (1838–1854): literatura, prensa y sociedad. Universidad de Zaragoza. 102–. 2008. 978-84-7733-137-7.
- 4.Naito Architects & Associates. www.naitoaa.co.jp.
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- Hiroshi Naito.
- NAITO, Yoshida, Nobuyuki, Japan Architect #46: Hiroshi Naito, A Special edition devoted to the some 20 years of his career, Publisher: Japan Architect. Year: 2002, Tokyo, , Book Id: 50431
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