SAKATA Seizô

阪田誠造 (1928 – 2016)

1928 born in Ôsaka City | 1951 graduates from the department of science and engineering at “Waseda University” in Tôkyô, joins the “Junzô Sakakura Institute of Architecture” | 1969 founds “SAKAKURA Architectural Institute” with NISHIZAWA Fumitaka and others after the death of SAKAKURA Junzô; becomes director and head of the Tôkyô office | 1976 receives prize of the “Architectural Institute of Japan” | 1985-99 deputy director and chief consultant of “SAKAKURA Associates” | 1990-91 vice president of the “New Japan Institute of Architects” | 1993-99 professor of the department of architecture at “Meiji University’s Faculty of Science and Technology” | 2016 died