Researcher and Faculty Information

Kazutaka Yamamoto Yamamoto Kazuki

YAMAMOTO Kazuki

Research Topics: Architectural Planning Architectural history Architectural Theory Modern architecture Save and Play

comment: My specialty is architectural planning, particularly architectural history and theory. I believe that in order to create better spaces for us, it is important to re-examine modernity, which is connected to the present, and I am researching modern architectural thought in Europe and the United States, mainly in Germany, and its interactions with Japan. In recent years, I have also expanded my interest to preservation and restoration.

Main publications and papers: ・The Walter Gropius Exhibition in Berlin 1930 and its Introduction to Japan, the 14th ISAIA, 2024. (Co-author)
・Construction plan and design competition for the phantom Kobe City Public Hall, Kobe City History Bulletin "Kobe History" (27), 2018.
・Development of a new image of locality in housing: Focusing on housing construction plans in Germany in the late 1920s by H. de Vries, Proceedings of the Architectural Institute of Japan Housing Research Report Meeting 10, 2015. (co-author)
・Planning concepts and methods for housing in large cities in Germany after the First World War as seen in "The Residential City of the Future" by Heinrich de Vries, Proceedings of the Architectural Institute of Japan Housing Research Report 9, 2014. (co-author)
・"Frugal" Architectural Concepts and Methods in Germany after the First World War: The Historical Position of "On Frugal Construction" by Behrens and de Vries, Proceedings of the Architectural Institute of Japan Housing Research Report Meeting 8, 2013. (Co-author)
・Adolf Behne and the Ideas of Modern Architecture, Dreams of the Other - A Collection of Research Papers on 100 Years of Mutual Exchange in Architecture and Urban Planning between Japan and Germany: From Katsura, Bauhaus, and Bruno Taut to a New Ecology, Kobe University 21st Century COE Program "Urban Space Design Strategies for Safety and Coexistence", 2007.

Main classes taught: "History of Housing," "History of Eastern and Western Architecture," "Design and Drawing Exercises II"