Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architectural history, theory, representation, and design. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and taught at Columbia University and the University of British Columbia. His articles on the international context of architecture and urbanism in Japan have been widely published and was an editor and contributor to Architecture + Urbanism for more than ten years.