An architecture book in a radical new format, MANGARCHITECTURE is built around seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. Manga creators Corsica, Tokushige Kawakatsu, Aoi Tokunaga, Gajioo Miike, Masakazu Usogawa, megumireland, and zajirogh use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wild flights of the imagination that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. Supplementing the manga are drawings, designs, data, and commentary on each project, as well as an essay by the architect and a thought-provoking dual chronology of the history of architecture and of manga.

Born in 1972 in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. He received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, in 1995 and a master’s degree from Waseda University in 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at MVRDV (Netherlands) under the Overseas Study Program for Artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. He founded Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects Inc. in 2005. He was a professor by special appointment at Meiji University from 2013 to 2018, and is currently a professor at Waseda University.
He has received the Yoshioka Prize (2006), the Asia Design Award (2009), the Good Design Award Special Prize (2010), the House Award Gold Prize (2010), the JCD Design Award Grand Prix (2011), the Annual Prize of AIJ (2011, 2014, 2018), the AP Award (2014), the WADA Award (2016), and the Grand Prize of ADAN (2018). His written works include Super Legal Buildings (Shokokusha, 2006), EX-CONTAINER (Graphic-sha, 2008), and Behaviors and Protocols (LIXIL Publishing, 2012).