Shigeaki Iwashita

Photo: Institute of Technologists bio portrait

Japanese

1946

Shigeaki Iwashita was an architecture graduate student in systematic design at Musashi Institute of Technology when he joined the Japanese Computer Technique Group (CTG). His experience programming FORTRAN for plotters and his camera work on 16mm teaching films helped make CTG’s Computer Movie No. 1 and No. 2 possible. He went on to a career as a housing-production researcher, architect, and professor.

Full Bio

Shigeaki Iwashita was a graduate student of “systematic design” in architecture at Musashi Institute of Technology, part of the era’s movement to replace intuition with method. He joined CTG through chance when he happened to sit next to Kohmura and they started a conversation about books that ran through the night.

Iwashita brought two things to the group: experience programming FORTRAN for plotters, and camera experience from producing 16mm teaching films, both of which helped to make CTG’s computer films, Computer Movie No. 1 and No. 2, possible.

He went on to become a housing-production researcher of international range: Doctor of Engineering, licensed architect, CEO of his own consultancy, visiting researcher at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit, and vice-president of an Oregon housing exporter. From 2001 he was a professor and founding department head at the Institute of Technologists (Monotsukuri University).