| MIURA ARCHITECTURE INC., JAPAN | |
| ADDRESS |
2-3-35-301, Hamatake, Chigasaki-shi 253-0021 Japan |
| PHONE&FAX |
+(81) -(0)467-40-5553 |
| miura@miuraarchitecture.com | |
| WEB | http://www.miuraarchitecture.com |
| PRACTICE | 1. Architecture, Interior, Furniture and Landscape design and City planning. |
| 2. Research about architectural history and architectural planning. | |
| 3. Business related to the above | |
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| KOICHIRO MIURA | |
| 1966, Born in Nagoya, Japan | |
| EDUCATION | 1996, University of California, Berkeley, California. Master of Architecture |
| 1991, Waseda University, Master of Architecture | |
| WORK | 2004 to present, Miura Architecture Inc., director |
| 1991-2003, Kajima corporation, Tokyo, chief architect | |
| 1996-1998, Philip Banta & Associates, San Francisco, senior designer | |
| LICENSE | Licensed architect in Japan, registration #: 251188, registered date: Feb. 21, 1994 |
| AWARDS | 2008, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Station, international public art competition, first prize |
| 2008, Main Stadium for the 2009 world games, public art competition, third prize, collaboration with an artist Huang Jin-Cheng, | |
| 2007, Nan Kang Station, international public art competition, first prize | |
| 2007, Kaohsiung international container arts festival, public art | |
| 2006, Centennial anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright visit in Japan, residence design competition 2005, the recognition of "outstanding achievement" | |
| 2005, Kaohsiung international container arts festival, public art | |
| 1994, C.H.C. marvel design competition, comfortable toilet, silver prize | |
| 1990, Hawkstone design competition, subway entrance, honorable mention | |
| 1989, Mitsui home international residential design competition, honorable mention | |
| LECTURES, ETC. |
2015, Talk show about bedroom interior designs, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store |
| 2011, Lectures about public art projects, Cheng-Zheng-Guo junior high and Nangang tech. high school | |
| 2006, Architecture workshop 2006 visiting lecturer, Shih-Chien University, Taiwan | |
IDEAS |
1. Communication: What we try to convey is usually is not what we comprehend. We pay the maximum effort to understand the relationship between the created things and the process of comprehension. |
| 2. Materials: Choice of materials is one of the most critical acts of design because each material carries its own stories that we depend on to construct the plan. Each person carries original stories about the material, though. | |
| 3. Ecology: Using less is better than substituting with something else in many cases. | |
| 4. Economy: Better results come out uncompromising efforts, since we live in the society of comparison | |