Takaharu Tezuka is a Japanese architect. In 1994, he and his wife Yui Tezuka founded the Tokyo-based firm Tezuka Architects. Projects by Tezuka Architects include the Roof House, Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science, Fuji Kindergarten and Woods of Net. Their recent awards include Japan Institute of Architects Prize, Association for Children's Environment Design Award, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities and a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.
Career
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1964, Takaharu Tezuka studied architecture at Musashi Institute of Technology and at the University of Pennsylvania. He then went to London where spent four years with the Richard Rogers Partnership. In 1994, together with his wife, Yui Tezuka, he established Tezuka Architects in Tokyo. The couple's work emphasizes human activity and connectivity as can be seen in their schools, office buildings and hospitals.
2013 - Chigasaki Zion Christian Church/Mihato Kindergarten
Fuji Kindergarten
Fuji Kindergarten in Japan, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka, emphasizing the idea that children don’t need to be forced to learn but they naturally cannot stop. The kindergarten is an open-air kindergarten, designed to encourage and facilitate social interaction between students as well as discovery-style learning. Students are encouraged to design their own learning environment through the use of crates to separate classrooms, trees are left to grow within the structure of the kindergarten that students are able to climb, and additional structures within the kindergarten allow for exploration for students to delve into and discover in a collaborative manner.
Exhibitions
Japan-Poland: New Architecture / 1994–2004
Venice Biennale / 2004
Aichi expo, Japan /2005
Gallery Ma, Japan / 2006
London Biennale /2006
Inax Gallery, Tokyo /2007
Deutsches Architektur Museum Exhibition, Frankfurt /2009
Contemplating The Void: Interventions In The Guggenneim Museum, New York/ 2010
JapanLisztRaiding, Austria/2010
Carnegie International 2013 ｛｛ http://ci13.cmoa.org/artists/tezuka-architects ｝｝
2007 - Association for Children's Environment, ACE Award Design Category
2007 - Design for Asia Grand Award
2007 - Highly Commended, the Architectural Review
2008 - Architectural Institution of Japan Prize
2009 - The Japan Institute of Architects Prize, the Japan Institute of Architects
2009 - The Architecture Award, Asia Pacific Property Awards 2009
2011 - Association for Children's Environment Design Award
2011 - The Best of All, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities
2011 - Good Design Prize, Japan Industrial Design Organization
2013 - Association for Children's Environment Design Award
2013 - Architectural Institution of Japan,Annual Architectural Commendations
2013 - Good Design Gold Award, Japan Industrial Design Organization
2013 - Good Design Prize, Japan Industrial Design Organization
2017 - Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
Publication
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue. Tokyo: TOTO Publishing, 2006.
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue 2. Tokyo: TOTO Publishing, 2009.
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue 3. Tokyo: TOTO Publishing, 2015.
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. Takaharu + Yui Tezuka NOSTALGIC FUTURE ERINNERTE ZUKUNFT. Edited by Paul Andreas and Peter Cachola Schmal. JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2009
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. ROOFLESS ARCHITECTURE / Summer Academy Salzburg. Edited by Miyako Nairz. Salzburg: Huttegger, 2008.
Tezuka, Takaharu, and Yui Tezuka. FLOORLESS ARCHITECTURE / Summer Academy Salzburg. Edited by Miyako Nairz. Salzburg: Huttegger, 2008.
Tezuka Architects – The Yellow Book, JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2016,
