Kevin Nute

Kevin began his career at the University of Nottingham in England where he won the Shimeld and East Midlands Royal Institute of British Architects President’s design prizes before going on to work in architectural practices in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He earned his doctorate at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge, and prior to joining the University of Oregon in 2000 he was a part-time lecturer at Cambridge and an associate professor of architecture at a national university in Japan.

Professor Nute has been a Fulbright scholar and research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, a Japanese Ministry of Education Scholar, a Japan Foundation Research Fellow, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow, all at the University of Tokyo, as well as a visiting teaching fellow at the University of Tasmania, and a visiting research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia.

He is the author of This Here Now: Japanese Building and the Architecture of the Individual (2021); Naturally Animated Architecture: Using the Natural Movements of the Sun, Wind and Rain to Bring Indoor Spaces and Sustainable Practices to Life (2018), John Yeon and the Landscape Arts of China and Japan (2010); Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004); and Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan (1993/2000), winner of the 1994 International Architectural Monograph Award from the American Institute of Architects.

Naturally Animated Architecture demonstrates how the movements of the sun, wind and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings while raising public awareness of sustainable living practices. Augmented reality codes embedded in the print edition’s photographs enable more than fifty video and audio clips of natural indoor animation to be accessed using a smart phone. This new mode of architectural monograph is available in hardback from WorldScientic.com, and as an eBook from Amazon, Rakuten Kobo and the Apple i-Book Store. The eBook edition of Naturally Animated Architecture won the 2018 Digital Book World Award in architecture and a 2019 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal.