SUSUMU MIZUTA

Last Updated :2025/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
E-mail
smizutahiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Dr. Mizuta specializes history of architecture, in particular history of modern Japanese architecture. He is also concerned with survey and conservation of historic buildings and townscapes.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2006/04/01, 2008/12/31, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2009/01/01, 2010/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • 2010/04/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Institute of Engineering, Assistant Professor

Academic Degrees

  • Doctor of Engineering, Kyushu University
  • Master of Engineering, Kagoshima University

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Engineering : Cluster 4(Civil Engineering and Architecture) : Program of Architecture and Building Engineering
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Architecture Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Architecture Program

Research Keywords

  • History of Japanese Modern Architecture
  • History of Japanese Architecture

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Architectural Institute of Japan
  • Society of Architectural Historians of Japan
  • Japan Society of Industrial Archaeology
  • Japan Society of Hitstory of Industrial Technology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Architectural Project and Drawing I
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Architectural Project and Drawing II
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, History of Architecture I
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Computer Technology in Architecture
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Architecture drawings
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Architectural Project and Drawing V
  7. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, History of Architecture II
  8. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Ethics of Architecture
  9. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Year, Graduation Thesis
  10. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Exercises on Architecture A
  11. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Exercises on Architecture A
  12. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Special Exercises on Architecture B
  13. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Exercises on Architecture B
  14. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Exercises on Architecture B
  15. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Exercises on Architecture B
  16. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study on Architecture
  17. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Advanced Theory of Conservation of Historic Environment
  18. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study on Architecture
  19. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study on Architecture

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Patent slipways of Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan: 1861-1900s, CONSTRUCTION HISTORY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY SOCIETY, 30(1), 71-91, 20150401
  2. A Research on the Small Attached Buildings of Goshi Properties in the Historic Settlement of Iriki Fumoto, Japan, JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING, 17(2), 167-174, 201805
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  3. Thomas Waters and the Paper Money Factory Project of Meiji Japan, JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING, 17(2), 277-284, 201805
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  4. Making a Mint: British Mercantile Influence and the Building of Japanese Imperial Mint in Osaka, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN, 62, 89-111, 20191201
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  5. Mise in townhouses in seventeenth-century Japan: their fittings, measurements and spatial transformation, JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING, 1-12, 20210223
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  6. Commercial architecture of a British trading firm in the Far East, 1830s-1930s: building of Jardine Matheson & Co. offices and warehouses, JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING, 22(6), 3367-3385, 20231102
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Publications such as books

  1. Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s, Chapter 7 Constructions on the Commercial Network of a British Colonial Firm: Branch Buildings of Jardine Matheson & Co. in Nineteenth-Century East Asia, Bloomsbury, 2024, Scholarly Book, Contributor, 118-131

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Dry Docks and Patent Slipways in Maritime Asia, Susumu Mizuta, XVIIth World Economic HIstory Congress, Session No. S20073, Special Economic Zones: Treaty Portsand Port Cities of Maritime Asia, 1842-1942, 2015/08/06, With Invitation, English, International Economic History Association, Kyoto
  2. The East Asia Branch Buildings of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Susumu Mizuta, Society of Architectural Historians, 71st Annual International Conference, Sesseion No. PS02 The Architecture of Commercial Networks, 1500-1900, 2018/04/19, Without Invitation, English, Society of Architectural Historians, Saint Paul

Awards

  1. 2016/09/20, ISAIA Academic Session Award, A Study on the architecture of cattle barns of Iriki fumoto village in Kagoshima

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Membership Committee, 2024/08, Society of Architectural Historians