COMPANY
Link Architects Co.
We, Link Architects Co. are a firm with platform style. Our name “Link” represents our view of the world everything is linking each other. We will put forward our architectural design and design as a “one-piece” biosphere with the global environment such as animals, plants, and nature. “Links” are our collaborators and independent architects and designers who have their own countries and fields. We are collaborating with them depending on each kind of projects flexibly and aiming to deal with any tasks with the consciousness linking with ordinary people all over the world. Along with international collaborators (“Links”), we practices a design crossing over places, scales, functions and so on.
PROFILE
Taishi Watanabe
Architect and Associate Professor, Ph.D. first-qualified architect
The committee member of Setagaya Tourism Exchange Association, Minato-ku scenery council, and the business committee member of Tokyo society of architects & building engineers, the 22nd delegate of Architectural Institute of Japan.
- 1980
- Born in Kamakura Japan
- 2005
- graduated from the department of architecture of the Graduate School of Creative Science in Waseda University
- 2005-13
- worked at Osamu Ishiyama Lab architecture firm.
- 2012
- graduated from the doctoral program of Graduate School of Engineering in Tokyo University
- 2016
- Associate professor at the Department of Architecture, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University.
- 2016
- established the first-class architect firm, Taishi Watanebe Laboratory, Inc.
- 2019-2020
- Visiting researcher at Aalto University, Finland.
- 2022
- the name of the firm was changed to Link architects, Inc.
Selected works
- Sechie
- Red House
- Morris House etc.
Selected Exhibitions
- Unity Architecture – 3 projects, 3 exhibitions, 18 objects – in Finland and Japan
- 3 exhibitions, 18 objects – in Finland and Japan
- Nation of Sorrow
- Blue-Infrastructure Making The City etc.
Single Authorship
- Unity Architecture (ADP Company, 2021）
- Tokyo’s Coastline -A History of the Urban Structure Formed by the Distribution of Warehouses on the Port of Tokyo-
Joint Authorship
- History of Minato City Illustrated'(Minato City, 2020)
- See / Read / Walk History of Tokyo 5′(Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2018), ect.
Awards
- Gold Prize in Residential Architecture Prize hosted by Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers (2021)
- JFDA award hosted by Japan Finland Design Association (2021)
- Architectural Institute of Japan Newcomer Award for Selected Works (2022), etc
LINKS
Finland
- Yrjo Sotamaa （Professor Emeritus of Aalto University, Chairman of Japan-Finland DesignAssociation in Finland, Former Representative of Ateljé Sotamaa）
- Pentti Kareoja （Architect, Professor of Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Co-representative of ARK-house Architects）
- Esa Vesmanen Interior Architect, Lecturer of Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Representative of Pure Design Oy）
Germany
- David Bauer（Architect, Lecturer of TU Berlin、Co-representative of BAUER + POHL PROJEKTE INTERNATIONAL）
- Martin Pohl（Architect, Lecturer of TU Berlin、Co-representative of BAUER + POHL PROJEKTE INTERNATIONAL）
Japan
- Shigeki Miyamoto（Founder of MINERVA Co.,Ltd.）
OTHERS
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University.