Hiroshi Naito graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1974 and won the Murano Award for his degree project. He then continued his studies under the supervision of Professor Takamasa Yoshizada. From 1976 to 1978 he worked in the Fernando Higueras agency as project director, then in the Kiyonori Kikutake agency in Tokyo until 1981, when he opened Naito Architects and Associates, also in Tokyo. He has been teaching first at Waseda University, then at Tokyo University since 1986. The important thing, for him, is to communicate with the public. He makes reference to the nostalgic, romantic music of Piazzola, and readily compares his position on architecture with it. He is eager to build "for everyone". He makes use of computer technology, but only for the purposes of presenting his work. Computers enable him to imagine and execute everything required on the structural level, but they do not help him to solve the problem of the link with nature, or the way to deal with natural forces. It is the adaptation to the context and surroundings which dominates the way Hiroshi Naito conceives of form; another principal influence is also often the use of one of his preferred materials, wood. For him, architecture must be "noiseless". And this is an ironical way of saying that it must speak for itself, and sidestep discourse.	(J)
	Naito Architects and Associates Naito (Hiroshi) (1950)
	• House n°21 Tokyo, 1997