VISION

Bunka Engineering = Co-create with invisible beings 

We create living environments while co-creating with invisible beings such as culture, history, climate, and community. To that end, we work on projects by fusing design and engineering. By transcending the boundaries of time and space, and co-creating with beings which are there but cannot be seen, we aim to maximize the potential of a place and create better living environments.

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Bunka Engineering Laboratory Co., Ltd
First-class registered architect office (Registered by governor of Hyogo prefecture No. 01A04767)

Hiroaki Kitagawa  CEO

First-class registered architect (No.364895)
Timber structure seismic retrofit engineer

He got a Master’s degree of Architectural Design at Kyoto Institute of Technology in 2008. He worked at Alhadeff Architects (Milan, Italy) from 2008 to 2013, working on projects in Italy, England, Switzerland etc.
In parallel with working at the architect office, he studied structural engineering and environmental engineering at the Master’s program of Architectural Engineering in Politecnico di Milano from 2009 to 2010.
He started KUAV in 2013 and established Bunka Engineering Laboratory in 2018.

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Soichi Kitagawa   Senior Managing Director

Director of Kwasan Astro-Culture Foundation
Director of NPO Kwasan Astro Network

He graduated from Kyoto University with a Master’s degree of Mechanical Engineering in 1980, joined Kobe Steel Co., Ltd. and engaged in the design and development of rolling mills mainly in the machinery devision, from 2011 worked as General Manager of Kyushu Branch. From 2014 to 2017, had worked as Managing Director for Shinko Techno Co.,Ltd.
Since 2017, he has been a lecturer at Kyoto University, Unit of Synergetic Studies for Space, and has been engaged in Kwasan Astronomical Observatory of the Graduate School of Science.
He participated in the establishment of Bunka Engineering Laboratory in 2018.

 

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2-1-23 Susanodori, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, 652-0896, Japan