Atelier Tekuto / Yasuhiro Yamashita

■ Earth Bricks won the Chairman of Better Living Award in the new architecture category at the Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation’s Fifth Sustainable Housing Award.

■ Atelier Tekuto has joined with Mizukami Architecture Design Office and life+shelter associates to form TeMaLi, a new collaborative design team. This January, the team’s proposal won first prize in the final round of a design competition for post-disaster public housing in the city of Kamaishi.

■ "Yasuhiro Yamashita x Atelier Tekuto Tomorrow: The Challenge of Architecture" was on display at TOTO Gallery MA from Oct. 13 through Dec. 22, 2012. Pictures of the exhibit may be viewed here.

■ Publication:
Yasuhiro Yamashita x Atelier Tekuto's new book, Tomorrow: The Challenge of Architecture (TOTO Publishing), was recently released in conjunction with an exhibit at TOTO Gallery MA.  The book includes 20 of the firm’s major projects along with a comprehensive overview of activities up through the present. Click here for a detailed description in Japanese.

Taiwan's Garden City Publishers has released a new retrospective of work by Atelier Tekuto. The book includes Chinese, Japanese, and English descriptions of important projects, up to the recent Earth Bricks project. The book may be purchased through Amazon, or from our official distributor by contacting [email protected].