Website: https://www.ryoyamada.com/
Ryo Yamada is a Japanese artist and architect, and maintains a professorship at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland (since 2023). He was born in Tokyo in 1968 and granted a PhD of art from the Tokyo University of the Arts. His projects are situated beyond boundaries of architecture and art, and emphasize the connection with nature and the environment through spatial investigations mostly integrating wood and textiles as central elements. Yamada stresses the language of the material, a theme also prominent in his teaching at various universities. He has been awarded several international design awards, and has also published academic journal articles. His activities are uniquely as environmental artist and researcher, drawing upon and developing successful work in design and academic institutions.