Hayatsu Architects

Hayatsu Architects We are a RIBA Chartered architecture practice based in London

Asagaya Workshop, Tokyo 2 - 13 September 2026Applications are now open for an urban research workshop in central Tokyo t...
17/05/2026

Asagaya Workshop, Tokyo
2 - 13 September 2026

Applications are now open for an urban research workshop in central Tokyo this summer.

The programme begins with a visit to Ise Grand Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture on 2-3 September, followed by a seven-day workshop combines field observation, trial installations and community engagement. The workshop coincides with the Shinmeigu Annual Festival.

It is a joint international workshop with Tokyo University of Technology, which is open to current students or professionals in the field of architecture, film studies, design, curating, art history, and related subjects in the humanities, PhD candidates and young professionals.

For applications please visit the AA Visiting School website (link in bio)

SCOSA Spring Conference 2026 at the University of York on 23 & 24 April 2026I was awarded this year’s Innovation in Arch...
03/05/2026

SCOSA Spring Conference 2026 at the University of York on 23 & 24 April 2026

I was awarded this year’s Innovation in Architectural Education Award by SCOSA — the Standing Conference of Schools of Architecture. SCOSA is a UK-based organisation representing 56 recognised schools of architecture, advocating on issues related to education and climate literacy.

Thank you to the judges for selecting my ongoing work at .school.of.art and 🙏

The teaching is centred on engagement and making, and aims to evolve through the reciprocal relationship of collaboration between students and the local community.

Photos by SCOSA

Last month, a+u magazine in Japan a+u: Architecture and Urbanism featured our project Artists House as part of Living in...
09/04/2026

Last month, a+u magazine in Japan a+u: Architecture and Urbanism featured our project Artists House as part of Living in London, edited by Andrew Clancy and Marwa ElMubark

The issue brings together 22 practices shaping the city through housing, reading London as a place of paradox: dense yet diffuse, global yet local, precarious yet resilient.

A launch event will take place at the Barbican Centre on 14 April 2026, organised by Architecture Foundation , Architecture Foundation several of the featured practices, including:

Adam Khan, Apparata, Bernd Schmutz, Brisco Loran, CommonBond, David Leech, David Kohn, Dyvik Kahlen, Entropic Group, JAM, Hayatsu Architects, Henley Halebrown, Hugh Strange, Mary Duggan, Material Cultures, NVBL, Pricegore, Sanchez Benton, Saqqara, Stephen Taylor, Takero Shimazaki Architects, Witherford Watson Mann, and 31/44

Photos from a+u website David Grandorge

Thank you 🏓 for inviting me to Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem to give a talk and take part in studio teaching last month....
05/04/2026

Thank you 🏓 for inviting me to Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem to give a talk and take part in studio teaching last month. It was truly an eye-opener to discover the work of Imre Makovecz during my stay, including a visit to Makovecz Centre and Archives to see his incredibly beautiful drawings 🙏

A mound house orientated towards the spring equinox like ancient barrows or stone circle monuments. Giant gates adorned ...
05/04/2026

A mound house orientated towards the spring equinox like ancient barrows or stone circle monuments. Giant gates adorned with eagle heads on their posts, stand with watchful eyes. A copper crown trims the central skylight, resembling spring flowers growing out of the mound. This building is full of metaphors about life (and death). Incredible. Forest culture centre in Visagrád, Mogyoró-hey, 1984-1988

I had the privilege of visiting a series of buildings designed by Imre Makovecz in Hungary during my short trip to Mohol...
05/04/2026

I had the privilege of visiting a series of buildings designed by Imre Makovecz in Hungary during my short trip to Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem

His buildings follow a Hungarian vernacular architectural principle of being living creatures like, often featuring faces and, in some cases wings. This building designed originally as a ski slope building in Dobogókő in 1979, resembles a bird folding her wings sheltering people from the snow. Love the use of a traditional wooden shingle arrangement called grányicafedés, and the cave like interior with a fire at its heart.

Thank you Luca Rádler 🏓 for driving the university’s cute minibus for the inspiring tour.

Raising Traditional Timber Frame students collaborate with to stage construction performanceRaising Traditional Timber ...
14/03/2026

Raising Traditional Timber Frame

students collaborate with to stage construction performance

Raising Traditional Timber Frame is a one-day construction performance celebrating the traditional practice of erecting timber-frame buildings. The event took place on Friday 27 February 2026 as a collaboration between Intermediate 12 at and London Timber Frame, a company specialising in the repair and restoration of historic timber-framed buildings in the UK. In the context of the climate crisis and renewed interest in timber construction, the project revisits historical building technologies to test ideas of prefabrication and construction logistics. Staged as a collective raising in the New Yard at 37–38 Bedford Square, the event celebrates historic craft while exploring its relevance for contemporary sustainable construction.

During the medieval period, London developed as a largely timber-framed city, with multistorey buildings lining narrow streets. Timber frames were cut and assembled on the ground using mortise and tenon joints secured with wooden pegs – an early form of prefabrication – before being raised into place. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, many timber buildings were destroyed and gradually replaced with masonry construction.

Drawing on this history, London Timber Frame has developed a portable timber-frame structure based on traditional mortise and tenon joinery. Designed to be quickly erected and dismantled, the structure functions as an educational tool that enables hands-on learning through the act of building.

Photos by the students
Razi Ahmad Juliansyah Ihsan, Emily Chi, Abhi Donda, Alexandra Gridneva, Duy Hoang, Leyal Ilgaz, Haoze Jiang, Kushal Kabre, Ismael Arturo Noya Carreño, Naomi Reich, Lea St-Georges, Napathorn Thongthungwong, Ao-Jan Wang

International Women’s Day — celebrating my wife, Shibboleth Shechter, teacher and researcher at at University of Arts L...
08/03/2026

International Women’s Day — celebrating my wife, Shibboleth Shechter, teacher and researcher at at University of Arts London, who constantly inspires me through the work she does quietly in the background.

Here are some of our past collaborations. Together, we worked cumulatively with over 300 first-year students from her Interior and Spatial Design course (then at Chelsea, now at Camberwell) over three years to build a series of site-specific 1:1 installations. Through these building experiments, we established three principles that guide our work:

• Making in public
• Making it local
• Making together

This teaching became a foundation for my own practice, and I’m forever grateful for the opportunity to develop it together.

Pic 1–5: Re-constructing Garden (2014)
Pic 6–11: Details and Spaces (2015)
Pic 12–19: Three Little Tea Houses (2017)

Listed Building Consent has been granted by for the Grade II* Listed Kingston Bridge undercroft! We have been working w...
19/02/2026

Listed Building Consent has been granted by for the Grade II* Listed Kingston Bridge undercroft!

We have been working with the council and community partners to improve the public space behind John Lewis. Hayatsu Architects are leading a multidisciplinary team comprising lighting designer graphic designer horticultural experts art and architecture collective @121.collective heritage consultant structural engineers planning consultant Longboard 👍

Phase 1 of the development focuses on the previously unloved and undervalued undercroft, which connects the north and south sides of the riverside. It will act as a historical portal, sharing the unique stories of the Kingston’s riverside, through sand-cast artwork plaques designed by the students from with support from Kingston Tour Guides.

The work will begin next month and more updates to follow.

Last month, I visited Nigeria with to work on several prototypes to test the potential of local earth based producti...
14/02/2026

Last month, I visited Nigeria with to work on several prototypes to test the potential of local earth based production, exploring supply chains, local skills, aggregate mixes, and interfaces with formwork and reinforcement.

WIP: Tools for the Performance of Earth

The Ilewo Rammed Earth Initiative marks the first physical realisation of a long-term vision to transform Ilewo into a significant, culturally and ecologically driven design site. It forms part of a broader, community-led ambition to establish Ilewo as a hub for sustainable living, material experimentation, and cultural learning.

Text from OK-RM post

Thank you and .tokunbo for taking such great care of us and for an incredible experience and exciting project.

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