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EDWARD SUZUKI ASSOCIATES INC.
Address: Keyaki House 101, 19-10, 3-chome Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
Telephone No.: 81-3-5770-5395 Facsimile No.: 81-3-5770-5397
E-mail: esa@edward.net http://www.edward.net
Established: December 1977, Registration Number: Architectural Office 17301
EDWARD SUZUKI 1947 Sept.18 Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
1966-71 B. of Architecture, University of Notre-Dame, Ind., on Ford Scholarship
1973-74 Fulbright Fellowship
1973-75 M.Arch. in Urban Design, Harvard University, MA
1974 Buckminster Fuller and Sadao, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., Isamu Noguchi Studio, New York
1975-76 Kenzo Tange and URTEC, Tokyo
1995 Visiting Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Visiting Critic, GSD, Harvard University, MA
DESIGN AWARDS 1982 Bronze Prize Rejuvenation of Historical Buildings, JIA
1983 MITI&IRAKA Gold Prize
1985 10th Light Metal Institute Award
1988 Japan Architect Association’s House of the Year Award
1993 6th International Design Competition Award
Yamagata Environmental Design Award
1994 Railway Construction Institute 22nd Architectural Award
1995 Japan Architectural Award
GOOD DESIGN Award, Ministry of Int’l Trade and Industry
1998 6th Public Architecture Award
GOOD DESIGN Award,
2000 GOOD DESIGN Award,
JCD Design Award,
2001 Saitama Environment Design Award,
Tokyo Architecture Award, Excellence Prize, ,
Tokyo Architecture Award,
2002 20th Century Environment Design Award,
2003 GOOD DESIGN Award,
2004 9th Public Architecture Award
2005 9th Brunel Award
2007 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design International Architecture Awards 2007,
6th ECO BUILD Award:
2008 KOMAE CITY Environmental Design Award:
2009 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design Int’l Architecture Awards 2009:
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS 1985 Udagawacho Police Box, Shibuya, Tokyo; Nishimachi International School, Moto-Azabu, Tokyo
1986 ONWARD Daikanyama Building, Daikanyama, Tokyo
1988 Shizuoka Gas Co., Ltd., SGEE PORT, Shimizu, Shizuoka
1990 Joule-A, Azabu, Tokyo; Plaza Mikado, Akasaka, Tokyo; WEB, Naka-Meguro, Tokyo
1992 Mpata Lodge, Safari Park Hotel, Kenya, Africa; Chinese Restaurant, Shanghai, China
HITACHI Machinery Factory and Branch Office, Gifu and Furukawa
1996 Library for the Blind, Ministry of Construction, Takadanobaba, Tokyo
2000 JR East Japan, Saitama Shintoshin Station, Saitama; Day-Care Center for the Elderly, Nozawa, Tokyo
2001 GAMO Beauty Studio, Oyama, Tochigi; Y Residence and Guesthouse, Shibuya, Tokyo
2002 Shisui Parking Area Service Facilities, Chiba; JR East Station Square ‘Gin no Suzu’, Tokyo
2004 GAMO Sendai, Miyagi; Morimoto PIAS Nogizaka, Tokyo; Ikedayama Place, Tokyo
2005 Rokurokuso Guest House, Hyogo; Mizonokuchi Catholic Church, Kanagawa; Daikyo ELZA Kamakura, Kanagawa
2006 DAIWA HOUSE Sakura-jousui Model House, Setagaya; DAIWA HOUSE Touhoku Factory Administration Building
2007 GAMO Nagoya, Nagoya, Aichi
2008 MORIMOTO Crescent Tsujidou East & West, Fujisawa, Kanagawa; “House like a Museum,” Kamakura, Kanagawa
2009 St. Mary’s Int’l School Phase 1, Seta, Setagaya; LIST Restage Center Minami Stationside Terrace, Yokohama, Kanagawa
2010 St. Mary’s Int’l School Phase 2, Seta, Setagaya
PUBLICATIONS 1989 EDWARD SUZUKI: Architect, Rikuyousha, Tokyo
1996 Edward Suzuki: Buildings and Projects, Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 Beyond the Clouds, Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers, Tokyo
2002 INTERFACE, Architectural Journal
2003 Atommetrics:Part 1 FORMA:Society for Science on Form
2008 Atommetrics: Part 2 FORMA:Society for Science on Form
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