Profile

Daichi Shigemoto is an architectural historian specializing in the history of Japanese architecture and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the interactions between Western (European and American) and Japanese architects in the modern age. He also writes about traditional Japanese architecture before the modern age and Western architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruno Taut, Antonin Raymond, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Louis Kahn, who had strong connections to Japan. Most of his studies approach problems in architectural history from the perspectives of social networks among architects, clients, and other individuals and the peculiarities of Japanese society and culture.

Education

• PhD in Architectural History, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
  Dissertation Title: “Hideto Kishida: Mediator between Modernism and ‘Japanese-ness’ in Architecture”
  Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Christopher Long (chair), Dr. Mirka Beneš, Dr. Danilo Udovički-Selb, Dr. Kevin Nute, and Dr. Ken Tadashi Oshima
• Master of Arts in Architecture, Waseda University, 2020
• Special Student, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2018–19
• Bachelor of Architecture, Waseda University, 2017

Languages

• Japanese (native)
• English (fluent)
• German (beginner)