Makoto Sei Watanabe

• Name — Makoto Sei Watanabe • Born — 1952 • Birthplace — Yokohama, Japan • Education — Yokohama National University Graduate School • Works — Aoyama Technical College K-Museum, etc. • Awards — ASLA Professional Award AIJ Prize, etc. Makoto Sei Watanabe is a Japanese architect.

In junior high school, he belonged to the biology club. In high school, he aspired to study biology at university, but on the recommendation of his biology teacher, he chose architecture as a field that combines both science and art. He graduated from Yokohama National University Graduate School in 1976, worked at Arata Isozaki Atelier, and then started MAKOTO SEI WATANABE / ARCHITECTS' OFFICE in 1984. His first actual work, "AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE" (1990), which was the winning entry of the international competition, attracted attention for its bold design. And another series in a different direction, a project called "JELLY FISH" (1990), which could be described as minimalism, was announced at the same time as "AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE". Concurrently, he explored theoretical aspects and, based on his interest in biology, conducted research that viewed cities and architecture not from the perspective of conventional 'design' but from that of 'generation'. He then released "INDUCTION DESIGN" (1994) as a method of generating architecture and cities using computer programs by algorithmizing the conditions to be solved. This method, later termed "ALGOrithmic Design", culminated in "SUBWAY STATION / IIDABASHI" (2000). Subsequently, he developed the AI program "program of FLOW" (2001) based on this method and used it to complete "Tsukuba Express / Kashiwanoha-Campus Station" (2004). Its successor AI program, "pBM: project Beautiful Mind", is under development. In addition, he has received numerous awards both in Japan and abroad, including for his artwork "FIBER WAVE" (1995). He has also authored many books, and served as a university professor at home and abroad. • Illustration — Aoyama Technical College, Tokyo • Illustration — AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE • Illustration — WEB FRAME of Subway Station Iidabashi: A mesh-formed structure generated by a computer program that solves the necessary conditions is deployed in the underground space. • Illustration — WING of Subway Station Iidabashi

• Title — Year — City — Region — Note • AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE building-1 （AOYAMASEIZ Institute of Technology） — 1990 — Tokyo — First Prize / International Competition • N.Y. Transparent Toilet — 1993 — New York — USA — Awarded / International Competition • Mura-no Terrace (Village Terrace) — 1995 — Gifu • FIBER WAVE series — 1995- — Gifu, Tokyo, Graz, Vigo, etc. — Austria, Spain, etc. — Artwork • ATLAS — 1996 — Tokyo • K-MUSEUM — 1996 — Tokyo • SUBWAY STATION / IIDABASHI — 2000 — Tokyo — First Prize / Proposal • Shinkansen / ShinMinamata Station — 2004 — Kumamoto • ShinMinamata MON — 2005 — Kumamoto • Tsukuba Express / Kashiwanoha-Campus Station — 2004 — Chiba • Tsukuba Express / Kashiwa-Tanaka Station — 2004 — Chiba • RIBBON — 2005 — Graz — Austria — Museum exhibition design • Shanghai House — 2005 — Shanghai — China • TOKYO HOUSE — 2006 — Tokyo • RIBBONs / open-air theater (Fulfillment Amphitheatre / Wenxin Forest Park in Taichung) — 2009 — Taichung — Taiwan • WEB FRAME -II — 2011 — Tokyo

• Title — Year — Award — Region • International Design Competition for AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE building-1 — 1988 — First Prize • Design Competition for Osaka Pref. Peace Museum — 1989 — Awarded • Design Proposal for Tokyo Metropolitan Subway Line-12 Station — 1991 — First Prize • Design Proposal for Hyogo Performing Arts Center — 1992 — Awarded • Urban Outhouse Design Competition — 1993 — Awarded — USA • ROEBLING GATEWAY PARK DESIGN COMPETITION — 1995 — Awarded — USA • International Design Competition for Milan 2001 — 2000 — Awarded

• Title — Year — Executed Architectural Work (Title of the program applied) • INDUCTION DESIGN — 1994-- • ALGORITHMIC DESIGN — 2005 • 2000 — SUBWAY STATION / IIDABASHI (WEB FRAME) • 2011 — (WEB FRAME II) • 2005 — ShinMinamata MON (KeiRiki program) • 2006 — TOKYO HOUSE (Environmental Color Program) • AItect series (Design Support AI Program Development) — 2001-- • AItect - Subsidized Research: MITOU (programs for the next generation IT innovation leaders) by IPA ' Sensory-sensitive Architecture and Urbanism Generation Program' AI program: program of FLOW — 2001 - 2003 • 2004 — TX Kashiwanoha-Campus Station (program of FLOW) • AItect - Subsidized Research: CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology) by JST 'Bayesian Optimization in Architectural Design' AI program: pBM = project Beautiful Mind (Joint Research with the University of Tokyo) — 2017- 2023-- • Organizer: ALGODeQ: ALGOrithmic Design Quest international programming competition — 2013 - 2014 • Organizer: AQS: Algorithmic design Quest international Symposium — 2015