Takahiro Ohmura
Born in Japan, Architect/Critic
Ph.D. in Engineering
Takahiro Ohmura (b. 1991) is a Japanese architect.
Since 2023, he has been serving as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University.
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 IN-BETWEEN (Japanese Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia), The Garden beside WHITEHOUSE (as part of GROUP, 2021), Fixing Garden (in collaboration with Asako Fujikura, 2022), and Screens in Kamiooka (2022). He was awarded a merit prize in the 2019 SD Review for Detached Building at Kuragano Station (in collaboration with Naoki Saito).
Research Interests Architectural Design, Architectural Theory, Architectural Planning, Building Construction, Geometry and Graphics
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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
2024 [International Conference] Yuji Katagiri, Takahiro Ohmura: Notes on Architectural Abstraction in Poor Geometry A Periodic Table of Schéma with Square, Triangle, Circle and Reticle , ICGG 2024 - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Geometry and Graphics, Springer, pp.148-159, 2024
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 Architecture with a Circular Plan, A study on the geometry and scale in architecture Part 2, Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of 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
2025 In-Between: A Future with Generative AI, Lars Müller Publishers, 2025.
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
2025 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: The Fit of a Dialogue: Living and Generating Within the In-Between, WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE website
2025 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: The Third Place: A Dead Space, The Eyes of the Wind Pocket Tour Book 2022―2024, FLOATING ALPS LLC., pp.303-310.
2024 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Islands and Tides: Notes on the Archipelago, Archipelago Architects Studio (https://pelago-studio.com/）
2024 [Essay] Takahiro Ohmura: Collective, Contributed chapter to an edited volume (in Japanese), Language for a New Architecture, Tokyo: TOTO Publishing. pp.108-113.
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
2025 [Venue Design] The Body Reflecting, The Architecture Reflected — Solo Exhibition by Yurika Kono (Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025), BANK, Hiroshima, Japan
2025 [Exhibition] The Japanese Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia “IN-BETWEEN,” The Japanese Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy (joined as team In-Between).
2025 [Group Exhibition] SENSING STREAMS, Institut français de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (joined with Asako Fujikura).
2025 [Venue Design] MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art (Venue Design for Asako Fujikura’s Exhibition Room), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
2024. [Venue Design] Sunlight Announcements—Asako Fujikura Solo Exhibition, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan.
2024 [Venue Design] An Autumn Diary—Yurika Kono Solo Exhibition, Hibiya Library & Museum, Tokyo, Japan (jointed with Kumaya Sato).
2023 [Group Exhibition] Atarashii-Uso ("New Lie"), NITO, Tokyo, Japan (joined with Asako Fujikura).
2023 [Venue Design] REGARDING THE ECHO OF OTHERS—Yurika Kono Solo Exhibition, 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 (joined as GROUP).
2021 [Venue Design] NOKEMONO, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Japan (joined as GROUP).
2021 [Venue Design] ARATA MINO TO/FROM KUBA, ANB Tokyo, Japan (joined as GROUP).
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.
Lectures, Talks, Interviews
2025 [Lecture] Can Architecture Be Generated?, IBADAY, Nov. 2025
2025 [Keynote Lecture] Opening Strategies of Street and Lane Space in Historic City of Pingyao, Special Session "MA Exhibition Silk Road Colloquium", 2025 Yanta International Series Forum on Urban and Rural Planning, Xi'an, China, Oct. 2025
2025 [Keynote Lecture] Teire: Repair and Configuration, Keynote speeches at the launch of the Chemnitz Garage School, European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, Chemnitz, Germany, Aug. 2025
2025 [Workshop] Wisdom of Transaction Conceived from Islands: Perspectives from Sea-Island, Surroundings-Human, and Plural-Singular, The 32nd MERA Conference Workshop, Jun. 2025
2025 [Talk] Artist Talk: Noël Picaper, The 11th Philosophy Soirée: Agir pour le vivant (Institut français de Tokyo), May 2025
2025 [Workshop] Architecture Workshop for Children: "Playing the Environment", The 11th Philosophy Soirée: Agir pour le vivant (Institut français de Tokyo), May 2025
2024 [Talk] Inside and Outside of Geometry, plateau books (Yusuke Omuro Exhibition "9 Häuser"), Apr. 2024
2024 [Talk] Gallery Talk: "Swiss Vision: A New Generation of Expression", AXIS Gallery, Apr. 2024
2024 [Lecture] Development of Architectural Planning and Construction Research Focusing on Networks, Center for Urban and Regional Design Education and Research, Ibaraki University, Jan. 2024
2022 [Oral Presentation] Theoretical considerations on the impoverished architectural practices, The 16th Conference of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, Jul. 2022
2022 [Lecture] What 'theory' means to architecture now?, History as Project (Lecture Series by Architectural Theory Lab., Tokyo City University), May 2022
2022 [Lecture] About recent works, Toyo University, Jan. 2022
2021 [Talk] How to make a "NOTES", B&B, Sep. 2021
2021 [Symposium] Garden and Architecture, MISAWA HOMES A*PROJECT ONLINE LECTURE, Sep. 2021
2021 [Lecture] Studies for young architects overseas: Part 2, ManyConference, Jul. 2021
2020 [Talk] Invitation to Interior Room, or Video Meeting, A&ANS, Dec. 2020
2020 [Talk] Kōji Taki and architectural photography, Kentiku-To-Nitijou, Nov. 2020
2020 [Talk] Talking on TANNERAUM, TANNERAUM, Aug. 2020
2020 [Lecture] The garden and annex in Kuragano, Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, May 2020
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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