Akihito Aoi
Studied architecture at Kyoto University (withdrew from the doctoral program in 1995). Held roles as an assistant at Kobe Design University and associate professor at the University of Human Environments before becoming an associate professor at Meiji University in 2008. Professor since 2017. Doctor of Engineering. Books include Yoko to tate no kenchikuron: Modan hyūman to shite no watashitachi to kenchiku wo meguru 10-kō [Architectural theory of the horizontal and vertical: Ten lectures about architecture and us as modern humans] (Keio University Press, 2023), Chang-hua 1906: I-tso ch’eng-shih pei lao-shang, erh-hou tzu-t’i tsai-sheng ti ku-shih [Changhua 1906: The story of a city branded and regenerated] (Common Master Press, 2013), Shōka 1906: Shiku kaisei ga toshi wo ugokasu [Changhua 1906: Propelling the city through urban reform] (Acetate, 2006), and Shokuminchi jinja to Teikoku Nihon [Colonial shrines and Imperial Japan] (Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2005). Co-authored books include Sengo kūkanshi: Toshi, kenchiku, ningen [Postwar spatial history: The city, architecture, and humans] (Chikuma Sensho, 2023), Architecture of Okinawa and Ryukyu: Timeless Landscapes 3 (Millegraph, 2022), Chiiki bunmyaku dezain [Regional context design] (Kajima Institute Publishing, 2022), Global History of Architecture: 15 Lectures (Shokokusha, 2019), Tsunami no aida: Ikirareta mura [Between tsunamis: The village that lived] (Kajima Institute Publishing, 2019; awarded the AIJ Book Award 2021); Encyclopedia of Urban & Territorial and Architectural History of Japan (Maruzen Publishing, 2018), among many others.