CAt/ KAZUHIRO KOJIMA
www.c-and-a.co.jp

1982 Bachelor of Architecture, Kyoto University
1984 Master of Architecture, Hiroshi Hara Lab. University of Tokyo
1986 Established COELACANTH Architects Inc.
1988-91 Research Associate, University of Tokyo
1992-95 Lecturer, Waseda University
1994- Associate professor, Science University of Tokyo
1998 Reorganized C+A (COELACANTH AND ASSOCIATES)
2000-01 Lecturer, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001- Lecturer, Japan Women‘s University
2002- Lecturer, University of Tokyo
2004- Visiting professor, Kyoto Institute Technology
2005- Reorganized CAt (C+A Tokyo)
2005- Lecturer, Tohoku University
2005- Professor, Science University of Tokyo
Currently working as Partner, CAt
Professor, Tokyo University of Science
Visiting professor, Kyoto Institute Technology

CAt: In 1986, a group of seven people enrolled in the Tokyo University Graduate School doctorial course, including Kazuhiro Kojima and Yasuyuki Ito, jointly established ‘Coelacanth’.
Achievements include winning first prize in the international competition for the Osaka International Peace Center in 1990, the Utase Elementary School in 1995, and receiving the Design Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan in 1997. Following this, the office was renamed C+A in 1998. Then in 2005, reorganized into CAt(C+A Tokyo) and Can(C+A Nagoya), and from both offices in Tokyo and Nagoya, design architecture locally and internationally, based around four partners: Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu (CAt), Yasuyuki Ito and Susumu Uno (CAn).

Major Buildings

1995 Utase Elementary School , Chiba, Japan
(Selected Architectural Designs of the Architectural Institute of Japan 1997)
1996 Osaka Harbor Fire Station Temporary Building , Osaka, Japan
1998 Space Block Kamishinjo , Osaka, Japan (Ar+d Award (Denmark) 2001, Arcasia Gold Prize 2002)
2001 Hakuou High School , Miyagi, Japan
( Selected in Architectural Design works of Architectural Institute of Japan 2003)
2002 HIMURO HOUSE , Osaka, Japan
2003 Beijing Jian Wai SOHO / SOHO villa , Beijing,, China *in collaboration with Riken Yamamoto
2003 Hanoi Model , Hanoi, Vietnam
2003 Shiodome Infill Project , Tokyo, Japan
2003 Liberal Arts & Science College, Qatar Education City, Qatar, Doha *Master Plan,
PM: Arata Isozaki & i-Net
2005 Gunma International Academy, Gunma, Japan (American Wood Design Award 2005)
2005 Space Block Nozawa , Tokyo, Japan
2005 House YK/Islands , Chiba, Japan (Design Contest for Xyloid-Architectural Space 2006)
2006 Mihama-Utase Elementary School, Chiba, Japan (Prize for Excellent Architecture, Chiba-City 2007)
2007 Grains Shimomeguro, Tokyo, Japan
2008 JFIC Library (Tokyo)

2004- University of Central Asia , Naryn, Kyrgyz Rep , Tekeli, Kazakhstan , Khorog,, Tajikistan
*In collaboration with Arata Isozaki
2006- Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture (Holcim Awards Silver 2008 Asia Pacific)
2009- International School of Makuhari (1st Prize, Proposal Competition)
2009- Akabane Apartment
2014- Uto Elementary School (1st Prize, Proposal Competition)

Individual Exhibitions

1997 “Activity in the Office: Architecture of COELACANTH” (Gallery MA, Tokyo)
1997 “ARQUITECTURA JAPONESA DE VANGUARDIA” (Mexico city, Mexico)
2002 Exhibition “Kazuhiro Kojima” (GA Gallery, Tokyo)
2006 “Architect forum” (INAX-gallery, Tokyo)
2007 “Cultivate” (Gallery MA, Tokyo)

Group Exhibitions

1996 Milan Triennale "Cubic Body Crisis" (Milan, Italy)
2000 “Towards Total Landscape” (Netherlands Architectural Institute, Netherland)
2001 “4x4x4 Apartment Avant-Garde” (RIBA, London and three other cities in UK)
2002 “EU/JAPAN New Trend of Architecture” (traveling Tokyo, Spain, Belgium and other countries)
2002 Japanese Pavilion, “La Biennale de Venezia” (Venice, Italy)
2002 “45 under 45” (Wien, Austria)
2004 “New Architecture from Japan and Poland 1994-2004” (Krakow, Poland)
2005 “Extreme Eurasia- contemporary Spanish and Japanese architecture” (Tokyo, Japan)
2006 “ARCHILAB 2006” (Orleans, France)
2006 “CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE HOUSES 1985-2005” (Gallery MA, Tokyo)
2006 “Extreme East- contemporary Japanese architecture” (Bucharest, Romania)
2006 “Parallel Nippon” exhibition (traveling Tokyo, Iran, Luxemburg, Italy and other countries)
2006 “CULTIVATE Kazuhiro Kojima+ Kazuko Akamatsu / CAt” exhibition (Gallery MA, Tokyo)
2007 “Kazuhiro Kojima / CAt” 2G n.43 (Editorial Gustavo Gili)