Yo Hakomori

Yo Hakomori was born in Sendai Japan, raised in the United States and was educated both in the U.S. and Japan.

As a naturalized citizen, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Whitman College in 1980, Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at U.C.L.A. in 1985, and a Doctor of Engineering in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1994. Prior to receiving his Doctorate, Dr. Hakomori worked in the offices of Arthur Erickson Architect, Franklin D. Israel Design Associates, Koning Eizenberg Architecture and De Bretteville and Polyzoides. He has been project architect for numerous single family and multi-family residential projects, and has had experience with small commercial, and resort and retail master planning.

In 1991, he was the winning architect for the Aids Life Center International Design Competition, and more recently, a finalist for the Sendai Museum of Literature Design Competition, with Ichihara Architect of Tokyo, Japan.

He has served as a guest critic at Kanto Gakuin and Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, and at U.C.L.A. He has Taught at the University of Tokyo, Meiji University, California State University Polytechnic Pomona, and is currently a Lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Hakomori has worked both in Japan and the United States, and currently has his own practice in Venice, California.

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