Toronto Metropolitan’s Department of Architectural Science hosts a lecture with Hiroto Kobayashi of Tokyo-based Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop.

This lecture looks to the potential of technology and of socially driven design. Alongside his work in practice, Kobayashi studies the social contribution of architecture and urban design. He has spent the last several years working on rural revitalization and disaster response.

Hiroto Kobayashi studied architecture and urban design at Kyoto University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). He was also a Fulbright visiting researcher at the GSD in 1999 and 2000, where he received a Doctor of Design in 2003. He is a founding partner of Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop (KMDW), an architectural and urban design firm based in Tokyo since 2003, and was a representative of Skidmore Owings and Merrill in Japan between 2003 and 2022. 

This event is free and open to the public. There will also be a livestream during the time of the lecture for viewers joining online.