Portal for Japanese minimalist architecture

MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO is a Tokyo-based architectural studio founded in 2004 by Masahiro Harada and Mao Harada. 

Masahiro Harada was born in 1973 in Yaidu. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from Shibaura Institute of Technology. From 1997-2000 he worked with Kengo Kuma as a chief architect. From 2001-2002, he worked in the international studio of Jose Antonio Martinez Lapena and Elias Torres in Barcelona. In 2003, he was a project manager in an architectural practice of Arata Isozaki. Since 2005, he has worked as a lecturer at various universities, including Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tohoku University, and the University of Tokyo. He’s currently working as a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology.

Mao Harada was born in 1976 in Sagamihara. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Shibaura Institute of Technology in 1999. From 2000-2003 she was employed at the Editorial office of Workshop for Architecture and Urbanism. After establishing MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO, she worked as a lecturer at Tohoku University. Since 2019, she’s been working as a lecturer at Tokyo University.

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