Profile

Membership

1981

Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Registered Architect

1988

American Institute of Architects, Associate (AIA)

Education

1988

M. Arch. in Urban Design (Distinction) Top Graduate Award, Class of ‘88 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA

1986-1988

Cross Registered MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , Cambridge, USA

1985

Certificate of Planning University of Florence, Florence, Italy

1980

B. Arch. (Honours) University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Qualifications

1997-Present

Principal, Riccardo Tossani Architecture, Tokyo, Japan

1988-1997

Associate, Johnson Fain and Pereira Associates, Los Angeles, USA

1993-1995

Founding Director, Johnson Fain and Pereira International, Guam, USA

1988

Consultant, A.C. Martin Associates, Los Angeles, USA
Architects and Planners

1987

Consultant, City of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Department of Design and Planning

1984-1986

Design Architect, ArcoProgetti, Florence, Italy
Architects, Urban Designers and Planners

1980-1984

Architect, Design Partner, Villis + Tossani Architects, Adelaide, Australia
Architects and Interior Designers

Professional Affiliations

Board Member (Ret.), AIA Japan

Member, American Chamber of Commerce, Japan

Member, Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce, Japan

Member, Italian Chamber of Commerce, Japan

With a career that has spanned several continents over four decades, Tossani’s work is founded on the renaissance notion of design as a creative and intellectual exercise that encompasses the broad spectrum of world making, from tableware to architecture and town planning. Awarded distinctions as the top graduate of the Master’s class in architecture and urban design at Harvard University’s renowned Graduate School of Design, and an Honours graduate of the professional architecture program the University of Adelaide, Australia, Tossani has pursued a wide range of project types through design practice in Europe, Australia, the United States and Japan. Tossani founded the Tokyo-based practice of Riccardo Tossani Architecture with his partner Atsuko Itoda in 1997, and with an international staff they have completed a diverse range of architecture, interior and planning projects around the world. Under Tossani’s direction as design principal the firm continues to address issues of multi-culturalism, social evolution and environmental sustainability.

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Education

1995

B. Arts / Interior Design
Joshibi (Women's Fine Arts) University

Qualifications

1988-1993

Interior Designer, Shigeta Kenchiku Sekkei, Tokyo, Japan
Architects and Interior Designers

1995-1996

Interior Designer, Johnson Fain and Pereira Associates, Los Angeles, USA
Architects and Planners

1996-1997

Interior Designer, SOM, Los Angeles, USA
Architects and Planners

1997-Present

Chief Interior Architect, Riccardo Tossani Architecture, Tokyo, Japan

Chief Interior Architect and managing partner at RTA, Atsuko Itoda directs all interior design activities on a wide range of project types within Japan and abroad, Itoda is a graduate of the prestigious Joshibi (Tokyo Women’s University of Fine Arts), and has practiced with SOM as well as Johnson Fain Pereira in Los Angeles. Itoda’s work has a restrained contemporary flavor rich in character with a strong undercurrent of traditional Japanese craftsmanship. It looks to the future with a nod to the past, making it timeless. A perpetual student of lifestyle trends and fashion, Itoda’s perspective is founded deeply in the highly cultivated Japanese artistic tradition. Her innovative approach to optimizing project functionality within economic constraints has generated design recognized and published worldwide.