1999- Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Ph.D. in Architecture, Harvard University
1994 Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1993 Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1993 Instructor, Faculty of Design, Harvard University
1990- Co-founder of an architectural firm in Tokyo
1988 Master of Engineering in Architecture, Tokyo University
1987 Master of Architecture (first professional degree), Harvard University
1985 Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture, Tokyo University
Certificate
First Class Registration of Architect (Tokyo, Japan)
Exhibitions
The Unbuilt Monuments (AIA Gallery, Portland, Oregon, January 4-26, 2001)
The Unbuilt (The Gilbert B. Friesen Visitors' Gallery, Geffen Contemporary,
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, June-September, 2000)
The Unbuilt Monuments (The Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts,
San Francisco, March 20-May 13, 2000)
Space Barcoder and Gushikawa Orchid Center Headquarter Project (installation in
The 17th Exhibition of SD Review Wining Architectural Models and Drawings
organized by Space and Design Magazine, Tokyo, September 1998 and Osaka,
October 1998)
The Unbuilt (special featured computer graphics installation by Nagakura's MIT
group in collaboration with Kent Larson and five MIT students in the End of the
century Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, administered by
Museum of Contemporary Art at Los Angels, July 1998)
The Digitarama (computer graphics installation in the Virtual Architecture
Show, Tokyo University Digital Museum, June 1997)
Screening Events Participated
Fantasy Architecture (screening of The Danteum and the Tatlin's Tower
at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art organized by Royal Institute of
British Architecture (30 April - 3 July, 2004)
Anniversary Event (special featured screening of the Unbuilt Monuments
[Viewing this slide show requires Internet Explorer v6 or higher],
Architekturmuseum der Technishen Universitat, Munchen, September 16, 2003)
IMAGE (screening of Altstetten Church, Firenze, Italy, October 2-5, 2003)
Fantoche 4. Animation Film Festival (screening of the Danteum and Firminy Church,
Baden, Switzerland, September 13-14, 2003)
Transvisual Girona 2003 (screening of the Drive-in House, Sala Girona
Fundacio la Caixa, Spain, April 23 - June 1, 2003)
Konstruktion und Raum in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts (screening of the
Palace of Soviets and Tatlin's Tower, Architekturmuseum der Technishen Universitat,
Munchen, Setember 2002 - February, 2003)
Architecturanimation a+a (screening of the Danteum, Barcelona, June 18-22, 2002)
CG2000 (screening of The Danteum and Tatlin's Tower, Toppan Plaza 21, Tokyo,
June 12 - July 14, 2000)
Saint Petersburg, City on the Water (screening of Tatlin's Tower, the University
Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, February-April 2000, collaborative work
with Andrzej Zarzycki, Dan Brick and Mark Sich)
IMAGE, the 4th International Festival for Architecture in Video (screening of
the Danteum, Florence, December, 1999)
12th Virginia Film Fes tival (screening of the Danteum and the Palace of Soviets,
Virginia University School of Architecture Exhibit, October, 1999)
AES Japan Convention (screening of Danteum and Palace of Soviets, special
featured computer graphics exhibit by Nagakura in collaboration with Shin Baba
in AES Japan Convention, Tokyo, August, 1999)
La Nuit de L'Architecture Virtuelle (screening of the Danteum and the Palace of
Soviets, special featured computer graphics exhibit by Nagakura in collaboration
with Shin Baba, Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Marne, Paris, June 10, 1999)
Awards
Third Prize, Prix Pixel-INA Science Division, 19th Edition of Imagina, (For
The Palace of Soviets in collaboration with Shinsuke Baba, Monaco, January, 2000)
Grand Prize, Information Culture Society Awards, Tokyo, 11.1999
Nikkei Kyushyu District New Office Award (for office design of Gushikawa
Orchid Center), Nikkei-BP Corporation and Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Kyushyu, September, 1999
SD Review Award (for Gushikawa Orchid Center), Space and Design Magazine,
Tokyo, 9.1998
Mitsui Career Development Professorship, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1998
Special Mention Prize, Competition Entry for Maison de la culture du Japon a
Paris (co-designed entry with Shiro Matsushima and Akira Yoneda)
Computer Graphics Award (1987, Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
Ishizaka Memorial Scholarship (1985-7, Japanese Federation of Economic
Institutions)
Tatsuno Memorial Award (1985, Undergraduate Thesis, Tokyo University)
Publications by Takehiko Nagakura
"What is Design Technology? Part 3", article for Shinkenchiku, September, 2000
"What is Design Technology? Part 2", article for Shinkenchiku, August, 2000
"What is Design Technology? Part 1", article for Shinkenchiku, July, 2000
"The Danteum's Paradise" (article for A+U), A and U, Tokyo, February, 2000
"The Danteum" (Short Presentation and Demo, Eurographics 99, Milan, September, 1999)
"A Letter from Abroad" (an interview), Global Architecture, Japan, November, 1997
"DIGITARAMA" (an article for the catalogue of the Virtual Architecture Show)
Tokyo University Museum Press, June 1997)
Computer Graphics illustrations for Wiiliam Mitchell's article on Future CAD
(APPROACH, May, 1997)
Computer Graphics illustrations for Micheal Webb's article on Drive-in House
(Architectural Design, Septermber, 1996)
"Architectural Form and Computation" (article for Journal of Architecture
and Building Science), Architectural Institute of Japan, June, 1996
"Digital Pinup Board", (article for Virtual Design Studio), co-authored, Hong
Kong University Press, 1995
"Architect's Grammar" (article for Journal of Architecture and Building
Science), Architectural Institute of Japan, May, 1992
Kenchiku no Keitai Gengo (Japanese translation of The Logic of Architecture,
William Mitchell, M.I.T. Press), Kajima Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1991
"From Representation To Reification"(article for Kenchiku-Bunka), Shokoku-sha,
Tokyo, June, 1991
"Shape Recognition and Transformation" (Chapter 10, The Electronic Design
Studio), M.I.T. Press, 1990
Gendai Kenchiku no Hassou (Ideas in Contemporary Architecture), co-authored,
Maruzen Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1989
Publications about Takehiko Nagakura
"Deskrama", Computer Graphics Magazine, China, December 2006, (pp 96-97)
"Nieistniejace zabytki -Filmy o legendarnych projektach-", Architektura & Biznes,
Firma Wydawniczo-Reklamowa, Poland, May 2003, (pp 50-55)
"Animation Tatlin-Turm Sankt Petersburg", Konstruktion und Raum in der
Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Prestel, Munchen, (pp 70-71)
"Takehiko Nagakura", Architecture NOW, Philip Jodidio, Taschen, Koln,
2001 (pp 428-437)
"Unbuilt Monuments", Impossible Worlds, Birkhauser, London, 2001 (pp
192-195)
"Unbuilt Monuments", *Surface, Issue No. 24, 2000 (p48)
"Gushikawa Orchid Center", Shinkenchiku, Tokyo, March, 2000 (pp116-125)
"Gushikawa Orchid Center", GA Japan, Tokyo, March, 2000 (pp102-113)
"T. Nagakura, Projets Legendaires Virtuels" (pp110-118), L'architecture
D'aujourd'Hui, 324, Paris, Septembre-Octobre 1999
"Unbuilt to Last", Metropolis, June 1999 (pp114-117)
"Unbuilt Architecture and Radiosity", Nikkei Computer Graphics, Tokyo, May 1999
(cover,p10, pp90-91)
"Multimedia Arts Plastiques Et Architecture", Connaissance Des Arts, Paris, April
1999 (p5,pp110-115)
"Gushikawa Orchid Center", Space and Design, Tokyo, December 1998 (pp36-38)
"Visualization of Mirage Architecture", Nikkei Architecture, Tokyo, August, 1998 (pp34-35)
Built Projects
Gushikawa Orchid Center Headquarter Building, Okinawa, Japan, completed in
June 1999
Architectural Projects
New York Buddhist Church Renovation Project, New York, New York, Competition Entry, January 2007
Computer Graphics and Multimedia Projects
Predictive visualization of architecture in Azhar Park, Cairo, Egypt
at the request of Aga Kahn Foundation (December, 2003)
The Altstetten Church -adopted from the project of Alvar Aalto- (computer
graphics videography production in collaboration with Franco Vairani and
Andrzej Zarzycki, 2003)
Courthouse With Curved Elements -from Mies van der Rohe's Sketch-(computer
graphics videography production in collaboration with Stephen Duck, accepted
for screegning at SIGGRAPH 2001, Animation Theater,
SIGGRAPH Video Proceeding Issue 140 )
Tatlin's Tower - Monument to the Third International - (computer graphics
videography production in collaboration with Andrzej Zarzycki, Dan Brick, Mark
Sich, accepted for screening at SIGGRAPH 99, Animation Theater,
SIGGRAPH Video Proceeding Issue 132 )
Drive-in House - adopted from the project of Michael Webb - (computer graphics
videography production in collaboration with Marios Christodoulides, accepted
for screening at SIGGRAPH 99, Animation Theater,
SIGGRAPH Video Proceeding Issue 132 )
The Palace of Soviets - Le Corbusier's Competition Entry - (computer graphics
videography production in collaboration with Shin Baba, accepted for screening
at SIGGRAPH 99, Animation Theater,
SIGGRAPH Video Proceeding Issue 132 )
The Danteum of Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri (computer graphics
videography, accepted for screening at SIGGRAPH 98, Animation Theater
SIGGRAPH Video Proceeding Issue 128 )
The Danteum of Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri (computer graphics
videography, accepted for screening at Eurograhpics 99, Small Paper and Demo,
Milan, Septermber 1999)
The DIGITARMA (a paper on a multi-media projection system presented at
SIGGRAPH 98, Art and Multimedia SKETCH)
Public Lectures
Arkansas State University, Department of Architecture (January, 2002)
Portland State University, Department of Architecture (January, 2001)
TV Introduction and Appearance
The Greater Boston Arts (WGBH Boston, PBS, Channel 2 and 44, 10.200)
Da Vinchi's Prediction (TV Asahi Network, Channel 10, Japan, 03.25.2000)
The Danteum (Bell' Italia, Channel 3, Italy, 12.06.1999)
Newspaper/Magazine Reviews
"Unbuilt but Still Dazzling", David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, March 31, 2000
"Realizing the Unrealized of Modernism", Randy Gragg, The Sunday Oregonian, January 14, 2001