Kevin Nute is a British American architectural theorist and professor of architecture at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. He trained at the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, worked in practice in London, Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent much of his early career in Japan at the University of Tokyo and Muroran Institute of Technology.

His work examines how built environments can be designed to reflect the parameters of existence; the human/nature interface; and the transfer of ideas between cultures.

He is the author of Embodied Time (2024), The Constructed Other (2021), This Here Now (2020), Naturally Animated Architecture (2018), Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004), and Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan (1993/2000/2024).

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knute@hawaii.edu