"Naf Architect and Design"

Naf Architect & Design, founded in 2000 by Tetsuya Nakazono and Akio Nakasa, is an architecture studio with offices in Hiroshima and Tokyo.

Tetsuya Nakazono architect, co-founder of Naf Architect & Design, was born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1972. Architect for Hiroshima University, Faculty of Engineering, Class 4 (Construction), in 1995, and completed the master's course in environmental engineering, in 1997 for the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University.

He co-founded the NAF architecture studio in 2000, and a year later he co-founded the Nuff Architect and Design studio. Between 2012 and 2019, he belonged to Sojo University (formerly Kumamoto Institute of Technology), between 2016 and 2018 to the Graduate School of Creative Sciences and Engineering at Waseda University where he withdrew from the doctoral course. He became an Architect and Design Advisor, in 2019, in addition to being an associate professor in the Department of Architecture for the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, in the same year
 
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Akio Nakasa architect, co-founder of Naf Architect & Design, was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1971, graduated from Hiroshima University, Faculty of Engineering, Class 4 (Construction), in 1995 and in
In 1997 he completed the master's course at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University.

Until 2000 he worked at the Riken Yamamoto Design Factory, the year in which he co-founded the NAF architecture studio, and a year later the Nuff Architect and Design studio. Naf Architect and Design Representative, in 2019, and part-time professor in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meiji University, in 2021.

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