Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates is an architecture firm founded by Tomohiro Hata in 2005, based in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
Tomohiro Hata is a Japanese architect born in 1978 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He studied architecture at Kyoto University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 2001 and a master's degree in architectural engineering in 2003. He began his career at Shin Takamatsu & Associates between 2003 and 2004.
Early in his career, he was a finalist in the 2010 Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial International Competition and the winner of the Grand Prize in the 2011 Nagahama Urban-Glass Competition.
One of his early works, Belly House, won the Kansai Rookie of the Year Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan (2011), and Complex House received the House of the Year Award (2012).
Subsequent awards include the Third Kyoto Architecture Prize for Excellence (2015), the Setsu Watanabe Prize at the 60th Osaka Architecture Competition (2016), the Architectural Designs Rookie Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan (2017), and the ADAN Award from the Nippon Architectural Design Association (2018).
He has also received First Prize in the Sannomiya Square Competition in Kobe (2017), the Community Terrace Competition in Akashi (2017), and the Nada Station Plaza Competition in Kobe (2020).
He has been an associate professor at Kobe Design University since 2017 and a visiting professor at Kyoto University since 2013.
