Nango Yoshikazu

Sociologist / Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Hosei UniversityCity Tokyo

Born in 1979 in Osaka, Nango Yoshikazu is a sociologist and architecture and urban studies researcher. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies. After teaching at the University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies as an assistant professor and project lecturer, and then a lecturer and associate professor at the Meiji University School of Information and Communication, he took up his current position at Hosei University. Nango has been a visiting research fellow at Delft University of Technology, Columbia University, and University College London. He is involved with theoretical and practice-based research on cities and media, architecture and society, and physical and information spaces. His major publications include An Urban Theory of Solo Spaces (2018, Chikuma Shobo), What Was the Dream of Commercial Space? (2016, Heibonsha), and During Architecture (2015, Heibonsha).Last Updated: 2025.06