Akinobu Yoshikawa is a senior design fellow at MakiBiz (previously Architecture for Humanity), based in Sendai, Japan. As architectural specialist he supports the recovery of The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster. Previously, he worked as designer at Atelier Hitoshi Abe in Japan and at Nakada + Associates in the U.S. Mr. Yoshikawa holds a B.A. in architecture from Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, New York, USA, an M.A. in architecture from the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Japan.