Takuma Johnson

info@takumajohnson.co

Takuma Johnson is an architect and spatial designer currently practicing in Rotterdam. A licensed architect in the United States, he previously practiced in New York City and Spain, and is a former teaching fellow at Cornell University. Recent work has engaged writing, speculative design proposals, and archival research to consider the potential of multi-scalar, incremental, and participatory design processes in buildings and landscape design by engaging topics such as policy to politics, economics to environmentalism.

Takuma holds degrees from The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design (Generation 32, Cum Laude) and Cornell University AAP (B.Arch), and is a Licensed Architect in NY State, USA.

Currently, Takuma is practicing at KAAN Architecten in Rotterdam, NL. Previously, he has practiced at OOZE Architects & Urbanists, Skidmore, Owings & Merill, and RICA* Studio.

Invited Critic
Pratt School of Architecture, Cornell University AAP, Cooper Union, Syracuse University, The Berlage

2025
Proseminar: Keys to The Community
The Berlage
Teaching

2023

The Berlage, Fashion House

Research Project

2022

The Berlage, Project Global: Ground; A New Energy Landscape

Research Project

2021

The Berlage, Project NL: Designing the Social; Taking a Piss

Research Project

2018

Design Studio: Contexts + Adaptations
Cornell University

Teaching

2017

Design Studio: The 5 Senses
Cornell University

Teaching

2017
Introduction to Architecture Summer Program
Cornell University Summer College
Teaching

2017

Cornell University, Leicester: Minority/Majority

Research Project

2015

Cornell University, Remediation Fields - Duquesne Steel Works

Research Project

2024
MK&G Hamburg, Water Pressure Designing for the Future

Exhibition Installation, Re-imagine Water Flows: From Building to River Basin

[With OOZE]

2023

The Toilet Zine Launch Public Conversation

Panelist and Presenter of Taking a Piss [see previous]

2022
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Motion. Auto, Art, Architecture curated by the Norman Foster Foundation

Contributer to The Berlage’s exhibition installation, The Auto Drives Architecture

2022

10th Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, FUTURE GENERATION exhibition

Assistant Editor and Contributer for The Berlage’s contribution

2021

The Berlage, Into the Archive: An inquiry into Designing the Social

Exhbition curation, moderation, and contributer—Fashion House Book

2021

The Berlage, How do we learn from?

Exhibtion curation and contributer

2021
Archis VOLUME 60, ‘The World in Reviews’

Contributed essay These are not? the models you’re looking for

2024-25

Port of Antwerp Coordination Center

Antwerp, BE

2024

Verket—Grønlikaia Harborfront Redevelopment

Oslo, NO

2020-21

SOM NY Office Redesign

New York City, US

2021

US Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Washington DC, US

2016

English for Fun Preschool

Madrid, ES