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Yushi Utaka 　

(Architecture and Urban Planning)

Associate Professor, University of Hyogo, Japan

School of Human Science & Environment

1 Shinzaike Honchou，Himeji City, Hyogo 670-0092, Japan

Tel & Fax : (81)-792-92-9371

E-mail: utaka.yushi@gmail.com

URL: http://www.shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp/utaka/

 



Introduction

 

Yushi Utaka is working as an Associate Professor at the University of Hyogo. Before he joined the University of Hyogo in 2005, he taught at Hiroshima University for eight years.

His research interest is in urban planning and heritage conservation, with a special focus on built environments and cultural diversity in Asia. He has been conducting field research in Southeast Asia for the past 15 years. Yushi Utaka was researcher at University Science Malaysia in Penang state from 1995-1996 and 2001-2003, and at the National University of Singapore in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. at Kyoto University in 1997, and has been awarded academic prizes from institutions, including the Architectural Institute of Japan and the Osaka and Nagoya City. Yushi Utaka has been teaching architecture and planning subjects since 1997.

Currently, he is involved in heritage conservation and site management projects in Japan and the Asian region under the auspices of the authorities and international organizations. While joining these field projects spend time to think and write following areas past years around the cities in Asia.

1. Globalizing Heritage Conservation: Memory, Place and Narrative

2. Cultural Diversity and Multi-ethnic Settlement in Asia

3. Reinventing Traditional Built Heritage and Community

 

 

AWARD

 

Major received Award
Architectural Institute of Japan, Prize for Paper of Excellence 2003
Iharagi Prize 1998
2nd Prize 1993, Water front design, Architectural Design Competition, Architectural Institute of Japan
3rd Prize 1997, Inner housing, Osaka City, Architectural Design Competition prize, Japan
3rd Prize 1994, Urban Redevelopment, Nagoya city, Architectural Design Competition, Japan

Major received Fellowship and Scholarship
Ministry of Education Japan, Science Promotion (1996)
YKK Foundation, Scholarship for Overseas studies (1995)
Obayashi Foundation, Urban and Regional Studies Scholarship (1999)
Ministry of Education Japan, Research Grant for Overseas Research (2001)
JSPS Grants for Overseas Research (2001-2003)

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

Position Held
Research Associate, Department of Architecture, Hiroshima University (1997-2005)

Associate Professor, University of Hyogo (2005-present)

 

Research Appointment
Research Fellow, Science University of Malaysia, School of Housing, Building and Planning (2001-2003)
Research Fellow, The National University of Singapore, School of Design & Environment(2001)
Research Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science (1997-1998)
Research Fellow, Japan Society of Promotion of Science (1996-1997)

Teaching and Working Experience

University of Hyogo (2005-present)
Housing Studies1
Housing Studies2

Interior Design
Advanced Housing Studies, Post Graduate Course Study

Field Work
Research Seminar for 3rd Year Students
Research Seminar for 4th Year Students
Hiroshima University (1997-2004)
Architectural Design 1 + Architectural Design 2
Environmental Design and Planning (Candidate, Excellence in Education)
Architectural Seminar

Major Professional appointment
Member, ICOMOS Japan(2006-)
Resource Person, World Heritage Training Program, UNITAR Hiroshima Office (2004-)
Member, Research Committee, Proposed Miyajima Preservation District, Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan

 

Education and Field Work

 

Education
Kyoto University 1997, Doctor of Engineering.
Additional Course and Long term field work
School of Housing, Building and Planning, Science University of Malaysia (1995-1996)
Major Professional Association
Architectural Institute of Japan

 

Major Publication

 

·            Yushi Utaka, M. Amir Fawzi 2009, The Malaysian Multicultural Streetscape: Challenges in the New Millennium, Heng Chye Kiang, Low Boon Liang with Limin Hee edited, On Asian Streets and Public Space: Selected Essays from Great Asian Streets Symposiums 1&2, Center for the Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA), Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore and NUS Press, pp.79-89. (forthcoming)

·            Yushi Utaka, 2008, The Hiroshima Peace Memorial: Transforming Legacy, memories and Landscape: William Logan and Keir Reeves edited, Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with Difficult Heritage, Routledge, pp.34-49.

·            Yushi Utaka & M. Amir Fawzi, 2008,  Re-inventing a Multicultural Malaysian Port City: Case of the Acheen Street – Armenian Street Historic District, Penang, Asian cities cluster international workshop, International Workshop on The Origin and Future of Southeast Asian Costal Cities, 29 Feb- 1 Mar, National University of Singapore

·            Yushi Utaka 2005, Globalizing Heritage Conservation in Asia, 8th International Congress of ASIAN planning Schools Association, University Science of Malaysia, 11-15 Sep. 2005, CD-ROM

·             Yushi Utaka 2005, Tourism and Barrier Free Aspects of Heritage Sites: Case Study on the World Heritage Sites in Japan, Asia Pacific Tourism Association, Annual Conference in Korea, July 2005, CD-ROM

·            Yushi Utaka 2004, The Politics of Heritage Conservation: Place-making Vs. Story-making - Lessons from Future World Heritage Cities in Multicultural Malaysia, 5th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia、pp. 125-129

·            Yushi Utaka 2003, Rethinking Japanese Inner-city Housing Towards the Future：Re-discovery & Re-invention,  International Housing Conference in Hong Kong, CD-ROM

·            Yushi Utaka 2002, Japanese Globalizm: Lessons from Malaysian Malticultural Urbanism, CIB Tokyo Conference, Urban Regeneration and Placemaking, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, CD-ROM

·            Yushi Utaka & M. Amir Fawzi 2002, THE MALAYSIAN MULTICULTURAL STREETSCAPE: CHALLENGES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Great Asian Streetscape Symposium at National University of Singapore, pp.81-96

·            Yushi Utaka 2002, Conserving the Living Culture: Lessons from Little India, International Symposium- Penang Story, Penang Heritage Trust, 18-21April 2002, CD-ROM

·            Yushi Utaka 1999, New Agenda of Japanese Heritage Conservation, 5th International Congress of ASIAN planning Schools Association, Seoul National University, 8-10 Sep. 1999

·            Yushi Utaka 1998, Customer's Satisfactions on Housing project in Multi-Value Century. Case of Multi-ethnic society in Malaysia, Third Asian Real Estate Society, Taipei, 26-29 Aug. 1998

·            Yushi Utaka 1997, Multi-Ethnicity and the Human Settlement Planning. Case Study of Malaysian Society, 4th International Congress of ASIAN planning Schools Association, Bandung Institute of Technology, 2-4 Sep. 1997

 

Latest Updates: 2 June 2009