ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Junko Anazawa (Atelier Fuuchi / Principle)
Junko Anazawa was born in 1972 in Tokyo Japan, she received bachelor’s degree in Urban Sociology from Tokyo Women’s Christian University and master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts (Current Weitzman School of Design) and went on working for local urban design/planning firms in Seattle, WA. Since relocating back to Japan in 2004, she has been practicing landscape design at Landscape Design, Inc. and Mitsui Jun and Associates Architect, Inc. She became independent in 2020, founded Atelier Fuuchi as her own design practice.
Her more than twenty years of professional experience includes single family residential, multi- family residential, hotels, office, and urban master planning projects of both public and private sectors.
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ABOUT THE HOST:
Ar. Segene Park, AIA (AIAJ / 2021 President)
Segene Park, AIA is currently a Senior Architect / Master Planner in Nikken Sekkei (Tokyo) and served as a 2021 President of the American Institute of Architects Japan.
Segene was born in 1973 in Seoul Korea. He entered the College of Architecture, Design and Art in the University of Illinois at Chicago and joined the Annex 5 in Epstein as a project designer after graduation in 2003. The Annex 5 was an Epstein’s in-house architectural design studio dedicated to providing an architecturally sensitive clientele with a socially focused sense of design. His creativity and punctuality contributed to the team success; his designs brought the numerous awards and were published in Architectural Record, New York Times Online Edition, AIA Magazine, and other publications.
In 2007 he joined Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), Chicago, a global architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. His work extended to overseas projects on diverse scales. One of the remarkable works was his 354m-tower in Russia; it was exhibited in Venice Biennale in 2008 and introduced as a new form of Russian modern architecture of that time.
After marriage and relocation to Tokyo, Japan his interest in design further expanded into urban planning. He entered the department of the Urban Design and Planning in Nikken Sekkei, Japan’s biggest and global design firm of around 3,000 employees, in 2015. There soon he started to lead Nikken’s urban planning team, continuing to win three major international architecture/masterplan competitions. Those projects were also published in ArchDaily and other major publications in Russia. In 2020 his team was again awarded with the Urban Awards for Best Comfort Class Complex for another architecture/urban planning project in Moscow.
So far, he has been involved with different kinds of worldwide projects on all scales: architectural designs for residential building, office, hotel, museum, convention center, high-rise building, super tall building, and sustainable building, landscape design and urban planning. In addition, Segene became a president of AIA Japan (AIAJ) in 2021 after serving over four years with AIAJ as a board member, secretary, and vice-president. He has been a member of the Cliff Dwellers (CD) in Chicago since 2005 and served as the CD Arts Foundation committee member in 2008 – 2012. The CD Arts Foundation’s mission is to support the arts by providing arts-oriented organizations and individuals with grants, by helping present performances at the Club, and by sponsoring an annual music competition. He was also a member of the Chicago Architectural Club in 2006 and the Lions Club International, Seoul, Korea in 1995.
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ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Ar. Jun Mitsui, AIA (AIAJ / 2007 President)
Jun Mitsui is a CEo at Jun Mitsui & Associates. After graduating from Tokyo University in 1978, Jun Mitsui practiced at Shinich Okada Architects in Japan until 1982. He received his Master of Architecture from Yale University in 1984 and then practiced at Cesar Pelli & Associates, Inc. until 1992. He returned to Tokyo as a principal of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Japan and went on to found Jun Mitsui & Associates, Architects in 1995. He is a member of AIA, JIA and Japan Architects Academy. In 2007, he served as the AIA Japan component president. Jun Mitsui is a licensed architect in both Japan and the United States, he and his firm have been honored with numerous architectural awards.
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