About the Author

Jin Taira is an associate professor and researcher at the University of Las Palmas de GC, Spain, he holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, and is the associate architect at MPC arquitectos, Spain. He has professional experience with Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, and Hiroshi Hara architecture offices. Kengo Kuma is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo and founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates. He is considered one of the most influential architects of contemporary Japanese architecture. Akira Fujii is Head of the Hu+Fujii Laboratory, at the Institute and Architectural Design, Architecture and Landscape Design Center, College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University, China. He is the former head of the Urban Morphology Laboratory of the Institute of Industrial Science, at the University of Tokyo. David Grahame Shane is an urban theorist and author of Recombinant Urbanism. He is an adjunct professor in the Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP. Shane studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the Cooper Union among others.