NAGASHIMA Kôichi

長島孝一 (1936 – 2022)

Japanese architect and urban planner and the head of “A.U.R. Architecture, Urbanism and Research Consultants” | 1936 born in Tôkyô | 1957-59 solo travel in Europe | 1961 graduates from department of architecture at “Waseda University” | 1961-1963 works for MAKI Fumihiko at TAKENAKA CORPORATION | 1964 scholarship at “Harvard GSD Graduate School of Urban Design”; works for Hugh Stubbins | 1965 researcher at “Centre for Settlement Sciences”, Athens | 1965-72 works for “Maki & Associates” | 1969-72 associate professor at “University of Singapore” | 1972-76 director of Maki & Associates | 1976~ head of “A.U.R. Architecture, Urbanism and Research Consultants” | 1981-2002 director of the “UIA” (International Union of Architects); chairman of the “UIA AOF” (Architecture of the Future)