Sano Satoshi > CV (Japanese)
Architect, Joint-director of Eureka
Senior Assistant Professor at Keio Architecture
Sano Satoshi | © Ookura Hideki
Sano Satoshi is an architect based in Tokyo and Senior Assistant Professor at Keio University. After working at Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Kengo Kuma & Associates, he co-founded Eureka, a collaborative team of architectural designers & engineers in 2009. Eureka’s major works include Dragon Court Village (2013), Eagle Woods House (2017), NAGI Terrace (2019) and Blue Box Office (2023). Sano received his Ph.D from Keio University in 2021 with a dissertation entitled The Creation and Management of Public-private Interfaces. |
| Biography
1980 Born in Japan
2003 Graduated at Waseda University
2004 Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris
2006 Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo / Beijing
2009 Co-founded Eureka, Joint Director (-Present)
2022 Senior Assistant Professor, Keio Architecture (-Present)
| Research and teaching activities
2003 Master Course at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (-2006)
2009 Visiting Fellow/Technical Assistant at co+labo radović, Keio University (-2021)
2014 Part-time Lecturer, Keio University (-2021)
2015 Research Associate, Tokyo University of the Arts
2016 Doctoral Course at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University (-2019)
2017 Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo University of the Arts
2020 Part-time Lecturer, Art and Architecture School of Waseda University (-Present)
2021 Research Associate, Keio University
2022 Senior Assistant Professor, Keio University (-Present)
2022 Director of co+labo: Urban Architecture Research and Design Laboratory, Keio University (-Present)
| Academic Degrees
2003 B.Arch (Waseda University)
2006 M.Arch (Waseda University)
2021 Ph.D. (Keio University)
| Works
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Dragon Court Village |
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Eagle Woods House |
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Nagasaki Job Port |
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Blue Box Office |
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Around the Corner Grain |
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NAGI Terrace |
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Renovation Project of the Former Wada Residence (KUROSUKE NO IE) |
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A house in the house tree |
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Kankyu-tei |
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Ono-Sake Warehouse |
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veterinarian N house |
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Haus-Hyazinth |
| Main works at Kengo Kuma & Associates
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GLASS/WOOD HOUSE [Connecticut, USA] |
SAKENOHANA [London, UK] |
Sanlitun SOHO [Beijing, China] |
NEZU Museum [Tokyo, Japan] |
| Main works at Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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Columbia university campus plan [New York, USA] |
| Awards
2024
- KUKAN DESIGN AWARD 2024
2023
- 24th JIA Sustainable Architecture Award 2023, The Japan Institute of Architects
2022
- JIA Best Architecture Award 2022, The Japan Institute of Architects
- Second Place, Matsumoto Special School Competition
2021
- Civil Engineering Design Prize 2020
2020
- 21st Nagasaki Cityscape Award
- 2020 Selected Architectural Designs of the Architecture Institute of Japan
- 8th Daito Trust Construction Rental Housing Competition, Special Jury Prize
2019
- SD Review 2019, Selected work
- 2019 Selected Architectural Designs of the Architecture Institute of Japan
2018
- Finalist, 30th JIA Young Architect Award, The Japan Institute of Architects
- Second Place, Soka City Matsubara Child Center Competition
- 31st Ibaraki Architectural Culture Award, Selected work
- AICA Project Reference Contest 2017, Selected work
2017
- GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2017 / GOOD DESIGN BEST 100
- Residential Architecture Prize 2017, Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers
2016
- Selected Architectural Designs Young Architects Award 2016, Architecture Institute of Japan
- 2nd OKAZAKI Landscape Award
- 2016 Selected Architectural Designs of the Architecture Institute of Japan
- Architecture award 2016, Kantokoshinetsu Bloc of Architects & Building Engineers
- First prize, 4th Saitama Architectural Culture Award
- Honorable mention, 4th Saitama Prefecture Environmental Residence Award
2014
- The Architectural Review AR House Awards 2014, Highly Commended
- Grand Prize, JIA Tokai Architectural Prize for Housing Projects 2014, The Japan Institute of Architects
- First prize, 2nd Saitama Architectural Culture Award
- 46th Chubu Architecture Award
- JCD international design awards 2014, Best 100
- 26th Aichi House Award, Urban Renaissance Agency Chubu Branch Prize
- Japan Youth Lumbermen's Association 17th Wood Design Award for Best Residential Building
- 2014 Selected Architectural Designs of the Architecture Institute of Japan
2006
- 47th Azusa Ono Art Award
- Waseda Architectural Design Prize
2005
- SD Review 2005 Asakura-prize
- Saitama prefecture scenic attraction prize
- Saitama city scenic attraction prize
2004
- Fondazione Renzo Piano foundationer
- Silver prize, Architectural competition by The Japan Institute of Architects
| Books
- Urban Evolutionary Morphology: The Vestige City | Greg Keeffe, Darko Radović, Des Fagan, Sano Satoshi (Infra Press, 2012)
| Doctoral Dissertation
- The creation and management of public-private interfaces : wellness and bottom-up approach urban design incorporating
micro public spaces | Sano Satoshi
| Peer Reviewed Papers
- Public-private Interaction in Low-rise, High-density Tokyo: A Morphological and Functional Study of Contemporary
Residential Row-houses | Satoshi Sano, Ivan Filipović, Darko Radović
- The Potential of Small Wooden-Frame Building in Aging Japan | Satoshi Sano, Naoki Saito, Davisi Boontharm
- Use it or lose it: The (im)possibility of interpreting traditional Japanese spatial forms within contemporary architectural practice
| Satoshi Sano, Naoki Saito
- Citizens' Initiatives Ragarding the Construction, Management and Maintenance of "Haus-Hyazinth" - a City Park Pavilion
- A Process Design to Create a Place for Collective Local Activities Starting from Individual Actions - | Sano Satoshi,
Tsumura Yasunori, Yamanaka Tomohiko
- Addition and Renovation of Kankyu-tei −Design process to inherit the cultural background− | Sano Satoshi, Miura Kiyofumi
| Articles
- The Indigenous Urban Fabric of Tokyo: Low-Rise, High-Density Residential Urbanity (a+u, November 2021 Special Issue)
- Space as the Mixture of Public and Private(Japan Institute of Architects "Bulletin", No.276)
- Toward inconclusive space(KJ, Jan 2017)
- Public/Private Interface for the Regional Community(ANATOMY OF ISLANDS book of abstracts 2016)
- Kankyu-tei - the open residential space (Kankyuteishuho, 8)
- In small urban spaces (Mn'M Workbook 2: Tokyo Dérive—In Search of Urban Intensities)
- Exhibition report "Generation -Manifestations of Architects Under 35-" (Shinkenchiku, Sep 2012)
- Time and texture reserved in architectural materials (AGC/Hello Architects/Architects Room topic of life 703)
- Waseda architecture in the internationalization (Waseda Architectural school bulletin,2010)
| Exhibitions
- SD Review 2019
- "2nd INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORATY HOUSING" University of Nis
- "10 emerging architects Tokyo>Madrid" Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / The Japan Foundation
- "MAKE ALTERNATIVE SPACE"
- "Living Locally Reconsidering Critical Regionalism" Arts Maebashi
- Timberize TOKYO 2020
- AGC studio Exhibition No.12 "ATARASHII KENCHIKU NO TANOSHISA 2014"
- SD Review 2005
| International Programs / Lectures
- AA Visiting School Seoul 2023 Social Algorithms - Keynote Lecture
- AA Visiting School Seoul 2024 The Evolution of Seoul as a City - Unit 2 / Tamao Hashimoto + Satoshi Sano
| Social activities
- Steering Committee, Saitama Muse Forum, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (2009-16)
- Steering Committee, Urawa Kenchiku Juku (2007-)
- Steering Committee, Haus-Hyazinth Society (2004-)
| Membership of professional institutions
- Architectural Institute of Japan
- Society of Architects & Building Engineers
- The Japan Institute of Architect
| Links
- co+labo: Urban Architecture Research and Design Laboratory, Keio University
- Keio Architecture - SANO LAB
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