Shin YOKOO
Senior Lecturer (Educator Track)
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566.
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Shin YOKOO is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, CDE, NUS. Founded Ouvi as a registered senior architect of Japan in 2004 after completing a masterʼs degree in architecture at the Tokai University Graduate School of Engineering and working at the Masahiro Ikeda Architectural Studio. Earned a PhD (Engineering) from the Tokyo University of Science Graduate School of Science and Technology in 2016. Notable works include the House in Nakago (2021; collaboration with Snark), 4 Episodes (2014; Atelier Nishikata), and Jukkaie (2009; collaboration with Point).
He currently teaches design studios and Architectural Tectonics at NUS since 2020. Previously he taught design studios at University of Belgrade (Serbia) from 2017 to 2019, where in 2017 he served as a Trainee of architect for Japanese government gained “Grant of Japanese government overseas study programme for Artist”. When living in Serbia, he was invited to a guest lecture at Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture Paris la Villette (France). As there was a great response, he was conducted a guest lecture tour in ex-yugoslavia " Think Of Architecture From Two Perspectives" where was at University of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), University of Zagreb (Croatia), Ss, Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (North Macedonia), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), by serbian volunteers.
His research interests' Tectonic features: read an intention of architect from their drawing. In other words, to clarify how some details influence in architectural concept. Notable research includes ” “Design Feature of ʻMaison du Peuple de Clichyʼ Designed by E. Beaudouin, M. Lods, J. Prouvé”, (AIJ Journal of Technology and Design, Jun. 2015), “Study on the Relationship Between Features and Building Components of ʻAéro-Club Roland-Garros à Bucʼ” (AIJ Journal of Architecture and Planning, Jun. 2015), and “Study on the Relationship between Features and Building Components of ʻMaison démontable en ancier BLPSʼ” (AIJ Journal of Architecture and Planning, Sep. 2017), among others. Currently, he has been publishing new articles about other works of Jean Prouvé on a website of Window Research Institute.
On 16 August 2025, nearly two months after the Intensive Architecture Workshop in Tokyo 2025 (IAWT2025), the Japan Creative Centre (JCC) generously hosted a collaborative conference led by students from the Department, together with their peers from participating Japanese universities, including Tokyo University of Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, and Nagoya City University. The event highlighted insights gained from the workshop, a programme dedicated to exploring innovative approaches to community revitalization through the adaptive reuse of Sentō bathhouses (銭湯再生).
The Intensive Architecture Workshop in Tokyo 2025, held in June, brought together ten students from the Department alongside participants from Tokyo University of Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, and Nagoya City University for an immersive 10-day experience. More than just a design studio, the workshop offered a rare opportunity for students from diverse majors such as architectural design, environmental design, and structural design to collaborate intensively across disciplinary boundaries. This unique format departed from the conventional studios found in architecture schools, encouraging fresh perspectives and fostering a richer, cross-cultural dialogue in design.
