Fuyuki Makino is in charge of research and education as an associate professor at Art and Architecture School of Waseda University. He is a part-time lecturer on cultural theory at Ochanomizu University. He is also a part-time lecturer at Komazawa Women's University, including cultural anthropology, anthropology of tourism, and sociology of tourism.
After graduating from Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, he earned his master's degree (International Relations) from Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University. After that, he went to Daiwa Institute of Research and studied abroad in the doctoral program at the Laboratory of Folklore, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich. He graduated from Art and Architecture School of Waseda University, and he received a Ph.D. from Waseda University. After that, he worked as an assistant professor, an assistant professor at Waseda University, and an associate professor at Komazawa Women's University before assuming his current position. He is a first-class architect.
His areas of expertise are cultural anthropology (urbanization / development assistance and housing supply in developing countries: Philippines), human geography (negative heritage and community memorial site: Cambodia), and architectural design (housing design and residence for urban immigrants: Mexico), immigration research (History of Japanese immigrants' nostalgia and roots exploration: Mexico), architectural planning (housing plans for urban poor areas: Cambodia). Major publications include "Evolution and Diversity of Megacity" (Tokyo University Press, 2016), "Architectural Anthropology" (Shumpusha Publishing, 2017), "Space of Symbiosis with Cambodia: Memorial, Negative Heritage, Community" (Shumpusha Publishing, 2020), "My Academic Books" (Shumpusha Publishing, 2022), "Designing Social Architecture" (Lexington Books, 2022), etc.
