Kazumasa Yamashita is a member of Japan’s School of Architects as well as Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers. He designed the Kubo House in Tokyo, in 1980 and received a prize from the Architectonic Institute of Japan in 1976. He also designed the From 1st building, the Hirano Clinic and the Kitamura House. Yamashita graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1959 and worked for Nikken Sekkei, Paul Schneider-Esleben and for the Greater London Council.