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Miho Akita1, Rio Shibata2, Shin Murakami1, Norie Kawano1 and Satoka Takahashi1
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2025.11.001
1. Dept. of Human Environmental Design, School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya 464-8662, Japan
2. Naito Construction Co., Ltd., Gifu 500-8358, Japan
This study aims to examine the challenges and future directions of large-scale wooden construction education at universities in Japan and Finland. It compares the wooden construction curricula at universities and the architectural education initiatives undertaken by firms specializing in large-scale wood construction design in both countries. The target applications for large-scale wooden construction are residential, commercial, and public buildings. Comparing university education revealed many commonalities between the two countries, allowing them to be classified into two types: “seminar-centered” and “lecture-centered”. Japanese universities are categorized by building type and scale for educational purposes. Finnish universities focus their education on the properties and functions of wood. Based on these results, we infer that incorporating both Japan’s architecture-planning-focused education and Finland’s materials-focused education into teaching, using familiar housing buildings as a theme, will lead to the wider adoption of large-scale wooden construction.
Wooden construction education, large-scale wooden buildings systems, housing buildings, commercial buildings, public buildings.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 19 (2025) 513-522
doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2025.11.001
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