MITSURU SENDA

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PROFILE

1941 Dec. 8Born in Yokohama,Kanagawa,Japan
1964Graduated from the Architectural Department of
the Tokyo Institute of Technology
1964|68Worked for Kiyonori Kikutake Architects and Associates
1968-84Head of the Environment Design Institute
1982Gained a Doctorate in Engineering
1974|84Lecturer in the Art Department of Nihon University
1984-87 Professor of Architectural Engineering at Ryukyu University
1988-92Made a Professor of Social Development Engineering at
the Nagoya Institute of Technology
1992-Made a professor of Architecture in the Engineering Department of
the Tokyo Institute of Technology

DESIGN WORKS
Toyama Children's Center
Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center
Tokoname Municipal Gymnasium
Ibaraki Nature Museum
Tama Rokuto Science Museum

DESIGN AWARDS

1978Mainichi Design Award
1987International Transport Safety Institute Award for his book on
children's play environments and the Construction Industry
Association Award for his Hamamatsu Science Museum
1988Ministry of Construction Minister's Award in an Urban Park design
Competition for the Toriidaira Yamabiko Park in Okaya City.
1991Library Architecture Award,Supreme Order of Merit for Isehara
Library and Science Museum
1993Awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan Kasumigaseki Memorial
Prize(Research) and grand Expo prize, Supreme Order of Merit for
his Shinshu Expo Alpico Plaza

BOOKS

1984Kodomo no Asobi Kankyo(Children's Play Environments)
published by Chikuma-Shobo
1987Asobi Kankyo no Dezain(Design of Children's play Environments)
published by Kajima
1988Process Architecture:79 Environmental Design Mitsuru Senda,
Methods of the Environment Research Institute
1990Kodomo to Sumai(Children and Homes-50Architect's Solutions)
published by Sumai no Toshokan Syuppankyoku
1992Design of Children's Play Environments Published by McGraw-Hill
and Kodomo to Asobi(Children's Play Through the Eyes of
an Environmental Design Architect) published by Iwanamishoten