Kaz Yoneda
- Founding Principal, CEO
- Japan
- Member since 2021
Born in Seattle and raised in California, Kaz went on to receive a B.Arch. (Hons) from the Cornell University AAP. After a two-year collaboration with a then-startup atelier in Tokyo, he attended Harvard GSD and received his M.Arch. II (Hons) in 2011. Thereafter, he was appointed to run Harvard GSD’s Tokyo Abroad Studio with Toyo Ito. After serving as an inaugural director of space design for Takram from 2011 to 2014, Kaz launched bureau0-1. In 2018, Bureau 0–1 became incorporated.
Equally committed to practice, research and education, Kaz currently serves as Adjunct Studio Professor at Waseda and Adjunct Lecturer at Keio University (formerly Assistant Professor during 2016~2020), Adjunct Professor at Hosei, and Lecturer at Japan Women’s University. He has previously taught at Harvard GSD as a Design Critic in Architecture, Cornell University, Tokyo University, Nihon University College of Fine Arts, and during 2017-19 a studio instructor and local professor for UCLA xLAB program, in addition to lecturing at various institutions.
In 2014, Kaz was shortlisted for the prestigious Wheelwright Prize. In 2018, he was awarded the Richard Rogers Fellowship to research about the London Olympics Legacy Masterplan. The showroom he co-designed while at Takram called “Aurora”, for Toppan Company, received the 2019 Good Design Award. Kaz's interviews and written pieces have been published in Japan Architects, Shinkenchiku, GA Japan, The Architectural Review, Redshift, and Built. He has contributed to or have been featured on Metropolis, WIRED, Motherboard, ICON, and Architecture Boston. His works have been exhibited at dOCUMENTA 13, Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries, and 21_21 Design Sight.
Professional Affiliation:
Japan Institute of Architects
Architectural Institute of Japan
Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, UK
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
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