Born in 1977 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, and completed the Graduate School, Kyoto University in 2003.
He is the Principal of Shigenori Uoya Architects and Associates, and a Lecturer at Kyoto University, among other schools. He has been a Project Professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology since 2020, where he conducts research and surveys with students on the transformation and the current status of the structures of streets and city blocks in Kyoto and other historic cities in Japan and abroad.
His representative works include Kyoto Model: House with 3 Walls (Kyoto Prefecture, 2007) *1, Seito Church in Kyoto (Kyoto Prefecture, 2011)*2, Gum House (Kyoto Prefecture, 2019), SOWAKA (Kyoto Prefecture, 2019)*3, Nagaya and Historical Alley with Containers (Kyoto Prefecture, 2019)*4, and Kakkyoyama Common Center for Gion Festival (Kyoto Prefecture, 2022)*5. His publications include "Rinobeshon Zushu" (Residential Renovation Drawings, Ohmsha, 2016). He has won numerous awards, including the JIA Young Architect Award (2021), Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award (2021), Kansai Architect Grand Prize (2022), and the AIJ Prize (Built Work Division, 2023), among others.
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Collaborating architects and engineers
*1 Takeshi Ikei / IKEI Takeshi Architects, Norikazu Onozato / Kogakuin University
*2 Ichiro Hashimoto / S3 Associates
*3 Eisuke Mitsuda / Mitsuda Structural Consultants
*4 Eisuke Mitsuda / Mitsuda Structural Consultants, Yasuaki Nakagawa / muura inc.
*5 Jun Yanagimuro / Jun Yanagimuro Structural Design