Osamu Nishida was born in 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from Yokohama National University in 1999. In 2002, he established the architecture firm Speed Studio. From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a graduate assistant at Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School, and he established ondesign in 2004. He worked as an assistant at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) from 2005 to 2009 and works as a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of Science from 2013 to 2016.

Born in 1977 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Jun Inokuma earned a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2004. He worked at Chiba Manabu Architects until 2006, and established Naruse Inokuma Architects with Yuri Naruse in 2007. He became an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2008.

Toshiharu Naka was born in 1976 in Kyoto Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1999, he earned a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2001. He worked at Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop from 2001 to 2008, and established Naka Architects’ Studio in 2009. Then he worked as a design assistant at Y-GSA from 2009 to 2011.
He also worked as a part-time professor at Tokyo City University from 2011 to 2014, Yokohama National University from 2013 to the present, and Meiji University from 2014 to the present and currently works as a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo.

Born in 1982 in Toyama Prefecture, Fuminori Nousaku graduated from the Department of Architecture and Building Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005. He then earned a master’s degree from the same institute in 2007. After working at Njiric+Arhitekti in 2008, he became a research associate at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010. He established Fuminori Nousaku Architects in 2010 and obtained a doctorate in architecture from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012. In the same year, he became an assistant professor at the same institute.

Mizuki Imamura was born in 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture and graduated from the Department of Architecture at Meiji University in 1999. After working at SANAA from 2001 to 2008, she established miCo. in 2008. She currently works as a part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Nippon Institute of Technology, Meiji University, TUS, and Nihon University.

Shingo Masuda was born in 1982 in Tokyo and graduated from Musashino Art University in 2007. He established Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects with Katsuhisa Otsubo in 2007. He started working as a part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University in 2010. He also serves as a visiting critic at Cornell University in 2015

Takuma Tsuji was born in 1986 in Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Architecture and Building Science at Yokohama National University in 2008, he obtained a master’s degree from Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture in 2010. He then worked at Urban Nouveau* in 2010. In 2011, he started the Untenor media project and established 403architecture [dajiba]. He currently works as a part-time lecturer at Osaka City University and University of Shiga Prefecture.

Satoru Ito was born in 1976 in Tokyo. After graduating from the Department of Engineering at Yokohama National University in 2000, he earned his master’s degree in 2002. He worked at aat+Makoto Yokomizo Architects from 2002 to 2006 and then established Satoru Ito Architects and Associates in 2007.

Kosuke Bando was born in 1979 in Tokushima Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2002, he worked at Schemata Architecture until 2004. In 2008, he obtained his master’s degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Then he worked at Architects Teehouse in 2009 and established Kosuke Bando Architects in 2010. In 2010, he also established BUS. He worked as a teaching assistant at Tokyo University of the Arts from 2010 to 2013, and at aat+Makoto Yokomizo Architects in 2013. He currently works at Kyoto City University of Arts as a lecturer.

Toshikatsu Ienari was born in 1974 in Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kansai University in 1998 and from the Osaka College of Technology in 2000. In 2014, he established dot architects. He currently works as an associate professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, and a part-time lecturer at Osaka College of Technology

Born in 1974 in Hyogo Prefecture, Takeshi Shakushiro graduated from the Department of Environmental Design at Kobe Design University in 1997. He worked at Rikuo Kitamura + Zoom Atelier & Design, and Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates before establishing dot architects in 2004. He currently works as a specially appointed lecturer at Osaka College of Technology and part-time lecturer at Kobe Design University.

Chie Konno was born in 1981 in Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005, she attended at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology as a scholarship student from 2005 to 2006. In 2011, she earned a doctorate in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and started working at Kobe Design University as a graduate assistant. She also established KONNO in the same year. She became an assistant professor at Nippon Institute of Technology in 2013, and established teco in 2015.