Osamu Okamura

(*1973, Tokyo-Japan), architect, program director of reSITE international festival and conference on more livable cities, editorial coordinator and former editor-in-chief of the professional architecture magazine ERA21. Lecturer at the Architectural Institute in Prague and Visegrad Intercity Seminar in Architecture at STU in Bratislava. External lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, at SU Strasbourg and IISCE DSW in Wroclaw. External cooperation with Czech Radio 3 Vltava, publications in many professional magazines. External cooperation with the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Independent nominator of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award - for the Czech Republic. Member of the Board of Experts of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. Expert adviser of the Metropolitan Sounding Board of Prague City Council in issues of urban development. Member of the Artistic and Scientific Council of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture in Liberec. Graduate from the Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague - conceptual arts. Studied at ENSA Nantes, France. Lives in Brno and Prague.