The August issue of a+u titled “The Seven Principles of R. Buckminster Fuller,” for which I served as a guest editor, has been published!

Profile

Daichi Shigemoto is an architectural historian, who specializes 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 American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Antonin Raymond, and R. Buckminster Fuller, who had strong connections to Japan. Most of his studies approach problems in architectural history from the perspectives of social networks between architects, clients, and other people and the peculiarity 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)