Tetsuya Ukai

Tetsuya Ukai is the kind of architect you probably walk past the work of without knowing his name, and his Kariya Highway Oasis is exactly that kind of building. Born in Kariya, Aichi in 1966, he made it to the University of Tokyo, which tells you everything about the sheer grit behind the quiet exterior. Architecture isn't glamorous work; it's decades of accumulating expertise, understanding how people actually move through space, how a building ages, how a neighborhood breathes. He strikes me as the slow-burn type: years at Kenzo Tange's office, his own practice from 1992, and now a professorship at Kyushu University. I kind of respect a professional who lets the buildings do the talking.

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Tetsuya Ukai (born 1966) is a Japanese architect from Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, and a professor at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University. After graduating from the University of Tokyo's Department of Architecture in 1990, he worked at Kenzo Tange Associates on projects including the Fuji Television headquarters in Odaiba, founded his own office in 1992 and completed a master's degree at the University of Tokyo in 1995. His works include the Kariya Highway Oasis and the Mokkuru Shinshiro roadside station.

Name (English)

Tetsuya Ukai

Name (Japanese)

鵜飼哲矢

Reading

うかい てつや

Born

1966

Origin

Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Architect

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Horse

University

University of Tokyo

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%B5%9C%E9%A3%BC%E5%93%B2%E7%9F%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11675763

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Architect

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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