Takahiro Ohmura
Born in Japan, Architect/Critic
Ph.D. in Engineering
Takahiro Ohmura (b. 1991, The Crab) is a Japanese architect.
He has been an assistant professor at Ibaraki University since 2023, and he established the Office of Ohmura (OoO) in 2023.
Through architectural design, research, critique, and the creation of art works, he explores the potential of collectivity to support and encourage life in suburban or hinterland areas following urbanization and the emerging new necessity of architecture there.
Recent works include Garden beside WHITEHOUSE (2021), Fixing Garden (2022-), Screens in Kamiooka (2022), and Trans-prompt (2023).
Research Interests Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, Architectural Planning, Building Construction, Geometry and Graphics
Researcher number 80980929
e-mail info@tkhrohmr.com
url https://www.tkhrohmr.com/
Education
2021 Ph.D. in Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
2017-20 Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
2017 Master degree from Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
2015 Bachelor degree from Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
Career
2023- Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan.
2023 Established, Office of Ohmura (OoO)
2022-23 Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo University of Science , Japan.
2022 Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo City University, Japan.
2021-23 Joint Representative, GROUP.
2021-23 Committee member, Online Magazine of Architectural Critique (KENCHIKU TORON), Architectural Institute of Japan.
2020-23 Program Officer, Window Research Institute, Japan.
2018-21 Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Japan.
Thesis
2023 [Research paper] Takahiro Ohmura: Gravity and History: The Distorted Cube of the Arata Isozaki’s Shinjuku White House , Shiso January 2024 / Issue: Arata Isozaki, Iwanamishoten, pp.96-114, 2023. (in Japanese)
2022 [International Conference] Yuji Katagiri, Taizo Iwashita, Hirotoshi Takeuchi, Takahiro Ohmura, Ikko Yokoyama and Tatsuo Iwaoka: Grid as Memory in City and Architecture, ICGG 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics, Springer, pp.477-488, 2022.
2021 [Doctoral Thesis] Geometry and Scale of Plane Shape in Contemporary Architecture: A Study on Allometric Character of Architectural Space, Tokyo University of Science, Sept., 2021.
2021 [Peer-reviewed Journal] Takahiro Ohmura, Yuji Katagiri and Tatsuo Iwaoka: Structure of classification in Contemporary Aarchitecgture with a Circular Plan, A study on the geometry and scale in architecture Part 2, J.Archit. Plann., AIJ, Vol.86, No.783, pp.1581-1591, May, 2021. (in Japanese)
2019 [Peer-reviewed Journal]Takahiro Ohmura, Yuji Katagiri and Tatsuo Iwaoka: Typological structure in contemporary architecture made of a square plan —A study on the geometry and scale in architecture, Japan Architectural Review, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp. 562-575, 2019.
2018 [International Conference] Takahiro OHMURA: Introduction to “Architectural Geometry”: Through analysis of architecture made of square plan, ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics: 40th Anniversary - Milan, Italy, August 3-7, 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing), pp.955-967, 2018.
Co-authored and edited books
2021 NOTES VOL.1 GARDEN, NOTESEDITION, 2021.
2020 Fig. 5 | Grid on Architecture, Tokai Education Research Institute, 2020.
2018 Fig. 4 | Scale of Architecture, Tokai University Press, 2018.
Selected Essays, Book Chapters and Articles
2023 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: At the Crossroads of Necessity and Chance (Review of Tezzo Nishizawa’s solo exhibition), TOTO GALLERY·MA Website, 2023. (in Japanese)
2023 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: ‘P’ recursor (review of the exhibition “Publicness of the Art Center 2023: Playing Locality”), Shinkenchiku , p.17, Sep. 2023. (in Japanese)
2023 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair TO-yoko Kids, Kenchiku Journal Jun. 2023, pp.46-47. (in Japanese)
2023 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair Shinjuku Cardboard Village, Kenchiku Journal Feb. 2023, pp.36-37. (in Japanese)
2022 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair Situation Theatre, Kenchiku Journal Nov. 2022, pp.46-47. (in Japanese)
2022 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Dwelling of Spirits, Houseplaying No.01 Video, Office Yuasa, pp.227-231. (in Japanese)
2022 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: Staying on here (about Osamu Kujirai’s “poulailler”), Kenchiku Journal Oct. 2022, pp.25-27. (in Japanese)
2022 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair Shinjuku Riot, Kenchiku Journal Aug. 2022, pp.40-41. (in Japanese)
2022 [Planning/Production/Editing] Takahiro Ohmura: Hardcore of Cleaning, Kenchiku Toron.
2022 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: Water Roof, MALOU.
2022 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura and Gaku Inoue: Mosque of the same meaning , Kenchiku Journal Aug. 2022, pp.31-32. (in Japanese)
2022 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: The Wild Card for “Once on Hold”: Reflections on the Kawaii Paradigm in Japan , Shinkenchiku online. (in Japanese)
2022 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair Futen-zoku, Kenchiku Journal Jun. 2022, pp.36-37. (in Japanese)
2022 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: Labor and Play on the Cliff, Vanpool over the cliff in the foreground (Exhibition Leaflet), pp.20-22. (in Japanese)
2022 [Serialization] Takahiro Ohmura, Gaku Inoue and Naoki Saito: Teire/ Repair, Kenchiku Journal Apr. 2022, pp.37-39. (in Japanese)
2022 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Last territory of the domesticity, Kenchiku Journal Jan. 2022, pp.37-39. (in Japanese)
2022 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: Crooked Geometry , Kosakamorinaka. (in Japanese)
2021 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura and Naoki Saito: Debris and potted plants , SD2021. Kajima publishing. (in Japanese)
2021 [Critique] Takahiro Ohmura: Archipelago: Works for resistance , Exhibition catalog “A City Dreaming” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum), pp.12-15. (in Japanese)
2021 [Report] Takahiro Ohmura: Land, network, and multiple time , millegraph. (in Japanese)
2020 [Critique]] Takahiro Ohmura: Packing the feel , Through Hanmugi Hat. (in Japanese)
2020 [Critique]] Takahiro Ohmura: Toward the reconciliation filled with conflict , architecturephoto. (in Japanese)
2019 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Building the Way of Standing, Kenchiku Zasshi (1730), p.42. (in Japanese)
2019 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Scale Degree Zero, Kenchiku Zasshi (1729), p.41. (in Japanese)
2019 [Critique]] Takahiro Ohmura: Why is Pooh there? , 10+1 web site. (in Japanese)
Exhibition
2023 [Group Exhibition] Atarashii-Uso ("New Lie"), NITO, Tokyo, Japan (joined with Asako Fujikura).
2023 [Venue Design] REGARDING THE ECHO OF OTHERS, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan.
2023 [Venue Design] U MA MI (MU) ME MO, oz studio, Tokyo, Japan (joined as GROUP).
2023 [Group Exhibition] ENCOUNTERS, The Project to Suppoert Emerging Media Arts Creators 2022, Warehouse TERRADA B&C HALL 2F, Tokyo, Japan (joined with Asako Fujikura).
2022-23 [Group Exhibition] Make Do With Now – New Directions in Japanese Architecture, S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Swiss (joined as GROUP).
2022 [Group Exhibition] ATAMI ART GRANT 2022, PROJECT ATAMI, 3 NOV. - 27 NOV. 2022, Shizuoka, Japan (joined as GROUP).
2022 [Venue Design] Playground of Sensibility, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (joined as GROUP).
2022 [Venue Design] Vanpool over the cliff in the foreground, Tokyo, Japan.
2021 [Solo Exhibition] Teire/Repair, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan.
2021 [Venue Design] NOKEMONO, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Japan.
2021 [Venue Design] ARATA MINO TO/FROM KUBA, ANB Tokyo, Japan.
2020 [Installation] appearance of Interior Room, appearance at Video Meeting, Break Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 [Group Exhibition] SD Review 2019 The 38th Exhibition of Winning Architectural Drawings and Models, Daikanyama Hillside Forum - Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives, Japan.
2019 [Venue Design] Alvar Aalto Introspective Space, AIJ Architectural Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Awards / Grants
2022-23 The Project to Suppoert Emerging Media Arts Creators 2022 | Research and Practice Grants (joined with Asako Fujikura).
2021-22 Jusoken | Research and Practice Grants (joined as GROUP).
2019 SD Review 2019 | Merit prize
2017 Circos International Architecture Competition | 1st prize
2016 The 51st Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition | selected
2016 The 4th HULIC Student Idea Competition | 2nd prize
2016 POLUS Student Competition of Architecture | 3rd prize
2015 The 11th Daiwa House Competition | Merit prize
2015 The 3rd HULIC Student Idea Competition | Merit prize
2015 Akarenga Diploma Collection 2015 | 1st prize
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