Undergraduate Courses : Department of Design for Social System and Living Environment : Teaching Staff

ONUMA Masahiro

Professor
ONUMA Masahiro
Research :My main theme is architectural design for “the worth of maturity” of life and work place with projects typified by preservation, utilization and renovation of regional cultural properties in Tohoku Region as a town architect professor. Recently, I'm trying to encourage unknown collaboration ateliers of arts and crafts or to support rehabilitation of disaster area, for example Rikuzen Area that is famous for natural slate roofed houses in vernacular landscapes.

OOBA Makoto

KISHIMOTO Seiji

Professor
KISHIMOTO Seiji
Research : Through many years of fieldwork in various parts of Japan, I have been conducting research on the history of the relationship between people and nature, and livelihood techniques. Now that the population is declining and globalization is progressing, we will explore new values and hints of connections necessary for the future society from the folk society.

KOYAMA Yuji

Professor
KOYAMA Yuji
Research :The research theme is to investigate the relation between the organization and technical skill on the buildings and others.
Especially I have studied on the carpenters and another architectural artisans who supported the construction and repairs for buildings and city space in Tohoku region in the Edo period.I am concerned with restoration of the cultural heritage buildings such as the ancient farm-houses, shrines ,temples and others.
In addition, I have surveyed the town such as the post-town, the castle town and others.

HATAKEYAMA Yugo

Professor
HATAKEYAMA Yugo
Research :My research explores mainly about the regional disaster prevention from the point of architectural planning and urban planning, which regards both macroscopic and microscopic perspective as important about evacuation planning, regional disaster prevention and landscape evaluation.

ITO Miyuki

Associate Professor
ITO Miyuki
Research :The research is recognition and self decision of the person with physical imperfections and the disease.
The research is healthy maintenance of the mind and body of the people and the improvement of QOL.

ONUMA Masahiro

Associate Professor
TAKAKI Rie
Research :I have studied methods to create energy-efficient and comfortable indoor environments. I have carried out field surveys and experiments concerning both the exterior and the interior construction of buildings, including functions for environmental control provided in the building, and investigations into both the performance and the method of the operation of equipment used for this purpose. Through my research, I consider ways of reconciling both indoor environmental comfort and energy saving.

KURIHARA Kosuke

TANIMOTO Yukako

Lecturer
TANIMOTO Yukako
Research :Japan is now a super-aged society, so creating an environment for elderly people to live a healthy and productive life is necessary. My studies show the condition for the architectural planning on the housing designs by analyzing the movement of elderly people and staffs in both nursing and group homes. These studies mainly refer to Architectural designs. In addition, they also include Nursing care public welfare services, Nursing, and Sociology.

NAKAI Syusaku

Lecturer
NAKAI Shusaku
Research :My major is the travel behavior analysis in the civil engineering planning. My studies focused on the mode choice in the earthquake disaster, and how to use the discrete choice models.
Practical themes are the development of the campaign tool for the road safety by using the knowledge of the social psychology, and the development of the education program and material for the mode choice in the earthquake disaster by using the metacognitive strategies.