Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1982. Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2005 and completed his master’s degree at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 2007. He worked at Nikken Sekkei from 2007 to 2014. In 2012, he was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley. From 2014 to 2020, he was an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 2016. He established Nori Architects in 2017. He is currently the director of Nori Architects and an associate professor at Meiji University. He is committed to designing and practicing towards an architecture with nature.

In 2014 he received the Prize of AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan) for the NBF Osaki Building (formerly Sony City Osaki) and the Annual Architectural Design Commendation by the AIJ in 2024 for GOOD CYCLE BUILDING 001. Publications include A Guide to Environmental Simulation in Architectural Design: Toward an Architecture with Nature (Shokokusha, 2022 – Japanese).

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