Universal Design and Accessibility for All: Architecture, Cities and Space

Aiming to promote the realisation of inclusive built environments and the architecture of enjoyment, the research of Masashi Kajita focuses on three main strands: body, material, space in architecture. 

Under an umbrella project 'Universal Design and Accessibility for All: Architecture, Cities and Space', led by Masashi Kajita, a current and related series of design research projects study the idea of spatial inclusiveness through the discourse on architecture and body-centric space; materiality and immateriality in architecture, use matters and material practice; the standardised human body and non-compliant bodies; architectural details and strategy; as well as the city and the interiority of space. 

About Masashi Kajita
Masashi Kajita, PhD, Architect MAA is Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Design. He is co-founder of Bureaus, a platform for spatial research, design and strategies. He was formerly a senior lecturer in architecture at University of East London, researcher at Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University and Visiting Scholar at the Royal College of Art, UK. He has practiced architecture and interior design in London and Copenhagen and has taught architecture since 2005.