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Yutaka Sho
Yutaka Sho is an architect and faculty member of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. Sho is also the co-founder of GA Collaborative, a U.S.-based non-profit design and advocacy firm that is currently building a village and community center in Rwanda for widows of the 1994 Genocide. Her Rwanda project was awarded the 2013 Arnold Brunner Grant from the New York Center for Architecture. Sho is the editor of "Spaces of Everyday Rwanda: The Rwanda Picture Project" (Standing Stone Books, 2013).

Projects vary in scales and scope, but GAC always builds with those who are the ultimate users, who take ownership and contribute to the future maintenance. The on-site training programs create opportunities for the end-users to gain skills and wages to be used toward improving their own homes. GAC is currently working on the masterplan and design of 22-acre campus for Kigali International Community School, Rwanda Housing Project to survey and document 370 rural homes with architecture students from University of Rwanda and SU, among others. GAC’s projects have received numerous awards (see below Building Projects and Awards), and the firm was the recipient of Best of Practice Award for Architect (Small Firm) in the Northeast by the Architect’s Newspaper in 2021 and was named the Game Changers by Metropolis Magazine in 2020.

Sho’s design research and practice investigate the roles of architecture in the global development industry, informal and self-build settlements, and in post-atrocity reconciliation and rebuilding processes. In addition to Rwanda, Sho has researched in Hiroshima, Miyagi, and Tokyo in Japan; Ghana; Izmir and Diyarbakir in Turkey, and Uganda.

Sho received her doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo, her Master of Architecture degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has both a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from Rhode Island School of Design.