abstract:was a highly influential Japanese architect, forming what is now widely known as the "Shinohara School",Term first published in SD: Space Design, Jan 1979 which has been linked to the works of Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa. As architectural critic Thomas Daniell put it, "A key figure who explicitly rejected Western influences yet appears on almost every branch of the family tree of contemporary Japanese architecture...