# Hiroshi Nakamura (architect)

Hiroshi Nakamura (born 1974) is a Japanese architect, who designed the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center, receiving the Dezeen, Architectural Institute of Japan and Japan Institute of Architects awards for it.

## Biography

Born in Tokyo. Spent his childhood in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture and Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
* 1999 Completed the master's degree in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Meiji University. Since his student days, he has received awards in the field of architectural design.
* 1999-2002: Joined Kengo Kuma & Associates, Inc. Ltd. and served as the office's chief architect.
* 2002 Established Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP.

## Awards

* 2006 - JCD Award, Japan Commercial Environmental Design Association, Grand Prize (Lotus Beauty Salon)
* 2008 - GOOD DESIGN AWARD, Gold Prize (Dancing trees, Singing birds)
* 2008 - The Japan Institute of Architects Award (Dancing trees, Singing birds)
* 2010 - 26th Shinkenchiku Award (now Yoshioka Award) (House C)
* 2011 - 22nd JIA Newcomer Award (House C)
* 2012 - AR + D Awards for Emerging Architecture, First Prize (UK) (Sayama Forest Chapel)
* 2012 - JIA Environmental Architecture Award, First Prize (Roku museum)
* 2013 - JCD Award, Japan Commercial Environment Designers Association, Grand Prize (TOKYU PLAZA OMOTESANDO HARAJUKU)
* 2014 - JCD Award, Japan Commercial Environmental Design Association, Grand Prize (Ribbon Chapel)
* 2014 - JIA Award for Excellence in Architecture (Sayama Forest Chapel)
* 2015 - Architectural Institute of Japan, Recommendation (Roku museum)
* 2015 - LEAF AWARDS, Overall Winner (Ribbon Chapel)
* 2016 - WAN Sustainable Building Award, Winner (Kamikatz Public House)
* 2016 - JCD Design Award, Gold Prize (Bella Vista SPA & MARINA ONOMICHI Erretegia)
* 2016 - Japan Association of Architectural Firms, Awards for Architecture (Sayama Forest Chapel)
* 2016 - 57th BCS Award (Ribbon Chapel)
* 2016 - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture, Building of the Year (Sayama Forest Chapel)
* 2016 - WAN Sustainable Buildings of the Year, Winner (Kamikatz Public House)
* 2017 - Japan Association of Architectural Firms, Awards for Architecture (Erretegia)
* 2017 - World Architecture Festival, House - Completed Buildings (Radiator House)
* 2018 - Japan Association of Architectural Firms, Awards for Architecture (Kamikatz Public House)
* 2018 - Record Houses (Lath House)
* 2021 - Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Best Work (Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center)
* 2021 - Japan Institute of Architects Environmental Architecture Award (Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center)
* 2021 - Dezeen Awards, sustainable building of the year (Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center)
* 2021 - DFA Design for Asia Awards, Grand Award, Gold Award, Environmental Design, Workspaces (ZOZO Head Office Building)
* 2021 - JID AWARD, Grand Award (ZOZO Head Office Building)
* 2021 - GOOD DESIGN AWARD (ZOZO Head Office Building)
* 2021 - IIDA Global Excellence Awards, Corporate Space Large Category Winner (ZOZO Head Office Building)

## Significant works

* Lanvin Boutique Ginza- (Chuo-ku, Tokyo, February 2004)
* Lotus Beauty Salon- (Kuwana, Mie, January 2006)
* Gallery Sakuranoki - (Karuizawa, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano, April 2007)
* Dancing trees, Singing birds - (Meguro, Tokyo, August 2007)
* HOUSE C - (Chiba, October 2008)
* Roku museum - (Tochigi, 2010)
* Tokyo International Airport Terminal 2 Extension - (Tokyo, October 2010)
* TOKYU PLAZA OMOTESANDO HARAJUKU - (Shibuya, Tokyo, 2012)
* Optical Glass House - (Hiroshima, 2012)
* GRAZ - (Tokyo, 2012)
* Sayama Lakeside Cemetery Community Hall - (Saitama, 2013)
* NasuTepee - (Tochigi, 2013)
* Ribbon Chapel - (Hiroshima, 2014)
* Sayama Forest Chapel - (Saitama, 2014)
* Sarugaku Cyclone - (Tokyo, 2014)
* Cockpit in wild plants - (Nagano, 2014)
* Kamikatz Public House - (Kamikatsu-cho, Tokushima, 2015)
* Bella Vista SPA & MARINA ONOMICHI Erretegia - (Hiroshima, 2015)
* Finding Rainbows - (Tokyo, 2016)
* Radiator House - (Chiba, 2016)
* House of Glittering Leaves - (Tokyo, 2016)
* Lath House - (Tokyo, 2017)
* Ohori Kindergarten & After School - (Fukuoka, 2017)
* GORA BREWERY & GRILL - (Kanagawa, 2017)
* Laboratory Under the Crop Field - (Hiroshima, Japan, 2018)
* Half Cave House - (Western Japan, 2018)
* Logs on the Dune - (Eastern Japan, 2019)
* Care house of the Wind Chimneys - (Okinawa, 2020)
* Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center - (Kamikatsu-cho, Tokushima, 2020)
* House of the Sacred Rock - (Kyoto, 2020)
* Kasuien - (Kyoto, 2020)
* My-riad of Optical Glass Bricks - (East Japan, 2020)
* ZOZO Head Office Building - (Chiba, 2020)
* Tree Hut on Volcano - (Kanagawa, 2020)
* Hoshino Resorts KAI Poroto - (Hokkaido, 2021)
* Ueno Toshogu Shrine Juyosho & Meditation Pavilion - (Taito-ku, Tokyo, 2022)

## Others

* He won the Nisshin Kogyo competition sponsored by Shinkenchiku for three consecutive years.
* During his graduate school days at Meiji University, he won second prize in the 24th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition.
* He won the grand prize for 'Decorated House' at the Architecture Student Design Awards '97.

## Books

* Nakamura, Hiroshi; 中村, 拓志 (2007). Koisuru kenchiku. Tōkyō: Asukī. ISBN 978-4-7561-5069-1. OCLC 675605554.
* Microscopic Designing Methodology, Hiroshi Nakamura, March 20, 2010, INAX Publishing
* Regional Social Sphere Model: Conceptualizing the space between the state and the individual, Riken Yamamoto + Hiroshi Nakamura + Ryuji Fujimura + Go Hasegawa + Koji Hara + Masaru Kaneko + Hiroki Azuma, March 30, 2010, INAX Publishing
* The Art of Architectural Reading, Akihisa Hirata + Sosuke Fujimoto + Hiroshi Nakamura + Yasutaka Yoshimura + Hideyuki Nakayama, October 25, 2010, TOTO Publishing
* Chronicle - JA114/Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Hiroshi Nakamura, June 10, 2019, Shinkenchiku-Sha