The Arts of Japan

Pollock, Naomi

American Architect and Author

Naomi Pollock is an American architect who writes about Japanese design and architecture.

Naomi Pollock is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Tokyo University. She is an American architect who lives in Tokyo where she writes about design in Japan.

Her work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Pacific, including A+U, Dwell, Jutakutokushu, Kinfolk, Wallpaper* and Architectural Record for whom she is the Special International Correspondent. In addition, she is the author of several books, including Modern Japanese House, Made in Japan: 100 New Products, Jutaku: Japanese Houses, Sou Fujimoto and Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook. She was also the co-author of New Architecture in Japan, a contributor to Architecture: The Whole Story and Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture and the editor of NUNO: Visionary Japanese Textiles. In 2018, she was selected to join the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects.

Personal

Details

Family Name

Pollock

Given Name

Naomi

Gender
Female
Nationality
United States of America
Relatives
Sneider, David A.

Selected

Works

Articles and Essays

2020
Essay – Japanese Space and Chair Design