A collection of architect Shigenori Uoya's works. Uoya conducts surveys and research on the transformation and current status of the structures of streets and city blocks in historical cities in Japan and abroad, focusing on Kyoto, and approaches architecture based on a temporal axis that extends from the past to the future, including the renovation of machiya and the reconstruction of cities. The book introduces Uoya's numerous works, including the Kakkyoyama Common Center for Gion Festival, which won the AIJ Prize in 2023, through photographs, drawings, essays, and diagrams, offering fascinating insights into the essence of his architecture.

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, Kyoto Prefectural University, and Kyoto Architectural College. 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. In 2023,he won the AIJ Prize (Built Work Division) for the Kakkyoyama Common Center for Gion Festival.
His publications include "Housing Renovation Drawing" (Residential Renovation Drawings, Ohmsha, 2016.)