Akira Wada. Personal history

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Akira Wada Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology President of Architectural Institute of Japan Council Member, Science Council of Japan President of ANCER (Asian-Pacific Network of

1 Akira Wada Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology President of Architectural Institute of Japan Council Member, Science Council of Japan President of ANCER (Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research) Personal history Dr. Akira Wada is a Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He graduated from the department of architecture and building engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology at 1968 and the master course at He became a member of structural engineering division of Nikken Sekkei Ltd., one of large architecture and engineering design firm in Japan. He got a degree of doctor of engineering at He returned to Tokyo Institute of Technology as an associate professor, He was promoted to a professor at structural engineering research center of same Institute in He had been staying in USA as a foreign lecturer at the University of Washington on 1984 and as a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on His research interests are structural engineering of architectures and buildings, seismic design, seismic isolated structures, damage-controlled design and computer simulation of structures. Architectural Institute of Japan gave a research award of 1995 for his work Analytical and experimental researches of nonlinear behavior of building structures and an engineering award of 1993 for the work of his colleagues and him Invention and realization of damage controlled structures. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago, U.S.A. gave him 2011 Fazlur R. Khan Medal for his lifetime achievements. Now, he is president of Architectural Institute of Japan and a member of the Science Council of Japan.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Masayoshi Nakashima (November 2011) Professor and Director General Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011 JAPAN Voice: 81-774-38-4086

2 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Masayoshi Nakashima (November 2011) Professor and Director General Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto JAPAN Voice: Fax: Summary: Masayoshi Nakashima is Professor of Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University ( He also serves Director of DPRI since Nakashima s fields of research include inelastic, stability, and collapse behavior of steel members and frames, seismic analysis and design of steel building structures, experimental techniques for simulating the earthquake responses of large structural systems, and seismic design of base-isolated buildings. He and his students have published some two hundred fifty technical papers, over one hundred of them in archival journals, of which Nakashima has received seven national research awards. Between 2004 and 2011, Nakashima served Director of E-Defense, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED). E-Defense is a research center that operates the world s largest shaking table ( He is Editor of the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD), the official journal of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). Nakashima was Vice-President of the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) from 2007 to 2009, a learned society of about 36,000 members with expertise in all areas associated with buildings and inhabitants, including architecture, urban planning, building engineering, and building physics. Over the past two decades, he had served on many AIJ research committees as chair or technical secretary, including the Disaster Response Committee, AIJ Journal Editorial Committee, and the Steel Building Committee. In 2009, he has stepped into the chair of the AIJ Structure Committee. He served on the board of directors in charge of foreign affairs for the Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) (2001 to 2003) and was elected to Vice-President of JAEE in Between 2008 and 2011, he also serves as Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) of the United States of America. He belonged to the Building Center of Japan s Peer Review Panel for the design of base-isolated buildings (1995 to 2005). Since 2003, he chairs the Review Panel of the Architecture and Building Engineering Program of the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE, equivalent to ABET in the United States of America). Selected Appointments Director, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan (2011 present) Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan (2000 present) Director, Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (E-Defense), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) ( ) Visiting Professor, ROSE School, Pavia University, Italy (2001 present) Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, USA (1994) Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, USA (1991) Visiting Scholar, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany (1985) Major Areas of Teaching and Research Interest Seismic Analysis and Design of Steel Building Structures Development of Hybrid Testing Techniques Seismic Analysis and Design of Base-Isolation and Passive Damping Systems Selected Memberships and Services Vice-President, The Japanese Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) (2009 present) Chair, Committee on Structures, The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) (2009 present) Director, Board of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA (2008 present) Vice President, The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) ( ) 1

3 Chair, Committee on Steel Structures, The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) ( ) Selected National and International Awards Special Achievement Award, awarded by the American Institute for Steel Construction (AISC), Nikkei BP (Business Publication) Technology Award, awarded by the Nikkei News Paper, The Honor for Notable Contribution to Science and Technology in 2006, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2006 The Japan Society of Steel Construction (JSSC) Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Japan Society of Steel Construction, Japan, 1999, 2000, 2004 The Moisseiff Award, awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), U.S.A., 2000 The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Prize (Best Technical Paper Award), awarded by the Architectural Institute of Japan, Japan, 1997 The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Encouragement Prize (Best Technical Paper Award for Young Researchers), awarded by the Architectural Institute of Japan, Japan, 1991 Selected Editorship in Archival Journals Editor, Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD), Wiley (2005 present) ( Member of Editorial Board, Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) (2008 present) ( Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Elsevier (2008 present) ( Editor, Journal of Steel Structures, Japan Society for Steel Construction (JSSC) ( ) Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Architecture and Building Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan ( ) Selected Keynotes and Lectures The Fazlur Kahn Distinguished Lectureship, Lehigh University, PA, USA (September 2011) The Fifth World Conference on Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Tokyo, Japan (July 2010) The Kwang-Hua Foundation Special Lectureship, jointly organized by Tongji University, Shanghai, China and National Taiwan University, Teipei, Taiwan (June 2010) The First Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, SF, USA (December, 2009) The Sixth International Conference on Behavior of Steel, Structures in Seismic Areas, Philadelphia, USA (August 2009) The Fourteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China (October, 2008) The 2006/2007 Newmark Distinguished Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, (April, 2007) Annual Conference of Mexican Society of Earthquake Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico (September 2005) The UC Berkeley CUREE Symposium in Honor of Ray Clough and Joseph Penzien, Berkeley (May 2002) Selected Publications in Archival Journals (for three two years, after 2009) 1. Lignos, D. G., Chung, Y., Nagae, T., and Nakashima, M., Numerical and experimental evaluation of seismic capacity of high-rise steel buildings subjected to long duration earthquakes, Computers and Structures, Vol.89, Issues 11-12, pp Chung, Y., Nagae, T., Matsumiya, T., and Nakashima, M., Seismic Capacity of Retrofitted Beam-to-Column Connections in High-Rise Steel Frames When Subjected to Long-Period Ground Motions, Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics (accepted for publication). 3. Cui Y. and Nakashima, M., Hysteretic Behavior and Strength Capacity of Shallowly Embedded Steel Column Bases with SFRCC Slab, Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol.40, 2011, pp Sato, E., Furukawa, S., Kakehi, A., and Nakashima, M., Full-Scale Shaking Table Test for Examination of Safety and Functionality of Bae-Isolated Medical Facilities, Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Vol.40, No. 6, June 2011, pp Ji, X., Fenves, G., Kajiwara, K., and Nakashima, M., Seismic Damage Detection of a Full-Scale 2

4 Shaking Table Test Structure, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Sociey of Civil Engineers, Vol.137, No.6, June Jacobsen, A. Hitaka, T., and Nakashima, M., "Online Test of Buckling Frame with Slit-Wall Dampers Capable of Condition Assessment," Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol.66, No.11, November 2010, pp Chung, Y., Nagae, T., Hitaka, T., and Nakashima, M., "Seismic Resistance Capacity of High-Rise Buildings Subjected to Long-Period Ground Motions: E-Defense Shaking Table Test", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol.136, No.6, 2010, pp Ji, X., Kato, M., Wang, T., Hitaka, T., and Nakashima, M., Effect of gravity columns on mitigation of drift concentration for braced frames, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol.65, No.12, 2009, pp Cui. Y., Nagae, T., and Nakashima, M., Hysteretic Behavior and Strength Capacity of Shallowly embedded Steel Column Bases, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Sociey of Civil Engineers Vol.135, No.10, October 2009, pp Ji, X. Kajiwara, K., Nagae, T., Enokida, R., and Nakashima, M., A substructure shaking table test for reproduction of earthquake responses of high-rise buildings, Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Vol.38, No.12, 2009, pp McCormick, J., Nagae, T., Ikenaga, M., Zhang, P. C., Katsuo, M., Nakashima, M., Investigation of the sliding behavior between steel and mortar for seismic applications in structures, Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Vol.38, No.12, 2009, pp

Toyo Ito Architect Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Fujiya Bldg. 1-19-4 Shibuya Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0002 Japan Tel. +81-(0)3-3409-5822 Fax. +81-(0)3-3409-5969 http://www.toyo-ito.co.

5 Toyo Ito Architect Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Fujiya Bldg Shibuya Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan Tel. +81-(0) Fax. +81-(0) Personal history Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture in In 1971, he established his own office, Urban Robot (URBOT), which was renamed to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in Main works: Sendai Mediatheque, TOD S Omotesando Building, VivoCity (Singapore), Tama Art University Library (Hachioji campus), The Main Stadium for the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung (Taiwan R.O.C.), Belle Vue Residences (Singapore) Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, Imabari, etc. Under development; Multimedia Complex on the site of Gifu University s School of Medicine (tentative title), Taichung Metropolitan Opera House (Taiwan R.O.C.), Market Street office tower by CapitaCommercial Trust (Singapore) etc. Awards and Prizes: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the 8 th International Architecture Exhibition NEXT at the Venice Biennale (2002), Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects (2006), The 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu (2010), etc.

2013 Laureate Toyo Ito Japan. Sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation

2013 Laureate Toyo Ito Japan. Sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation 2013 Laureate Toyo Ito Japan Sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation The following pages contain images of the architecture of Toyo Ito. On the PritzkerPrize.com web site, these photos are linked to high resolution