B.S., Whitman College; M.Arch., University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. of Engineering in Architecture, University of Tokyo

Prior to receiving his doctorate, Professor Hakomori worked in the offices of Arthur Erickson Architect, Franklin D. Israel Design Associates, Koning Eizenberg Architecture and De Bretteville and Polyzoides. He has expertise working on custom single-family homes and multi-family residential projects, and has had experience with small commercial, hotel, resort and retail master planning. In 1991, he was the winning architect for the Aids Life Center International Design Competition, and more recently, a finalist for the Sendai Museum of Literature Design Competition, with Ichihara Architect of Tokyo, Japan. He was selected to participate in the National Grand Theater Design Competition for Beijing, China, along with his former partner Paul Reling Tang. He has been exhibited at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and Yale University as a selected participant in previous "LA New Blood" exhibition. He has served as a guest critic at Kanto Gakuin and Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, and at UCLA. He has taught at the University of Tokyo, Meiji University, and California State University Polytechnic Pomona. Dr. Hakomori has worked both in Japan and the United States, and is a partner at Workshop: Hakomori + Yantrasast, LLC, in Culver City, California.