Masaaki Yamada

Mr. Yamada graduated from the Art Division at Nagoya University of the Arts in 1982 and studied at the University of California, Irvine later that same year. After experience at HOK, he returned to Japan in 1993 and joined Nikken Sekkei. As the current Director of the Illustration Studio, a department specializing in hand-drawn illustrations with 10 multi-national members, Mr. Yamada is involved in a wide variety of projects. A key part of his career was being named President of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators in 2011 and the organization of conferences and exhibitions in Tokyo. Currently, he is the representatives of the Asian region for the Association. Mr. Yamada also presided over the International Architectural Illustration Expo program at UIA 2011 Tokyo (The 24th World Congress of Architecture), which featured a collection of 200 works from around the world.