John Masataka Xianfeng Jiang

John is a New York / Tokyo-based architect, AI researcher, and project manager. He has over eight years of professional experience at Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA), where he has led teams on a wide range of projects, including luxury towers, resorts, private residences, and high-end furniture. His unique career bridges the confluence of management, technology, and design. He also worked for the Center for Spatial Research (CSR) at Columbia University, and is the member of the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ). John holds master's degree in computation in Columbia University GSAPP and architecture in Hokkaido University.

Work

2025 - Present      Design Technology Specialist, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), New York, USA
2025 - Present      Co-founder, Spatial Intelligence Association (SIA), New York, USA
2024 - 2025      Researcher, Center for Spatial Research (CSR) at Columbia University, New York, USA
2017 - 2025      Project Manager, Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA), Tokyo, Japan and Los Angeles, USA


Accreditations

2017 - Present      American Institute of Architects (AIA)
2017 - Present      Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)


Invited Lectures

2025      Conversational BIM: From Prompts to Projects, Autodesk University (AU 2025) (Nashville, USA)
2025      BILT EUR 2025, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (The Hague, Netherlands)
2025      Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated BIM Generation, AI in AEC (Helsinki, Finland)
2024      Lecture on work experience in Japan & the USA, Cornell University (Remote: New York and Ithaca, USA)
2024      Bawa and His Architecture of Houses, Archifocus (Remote: New York, USA $ Shanghai, China)
2024      Kuma's Practice, Archifocus (Tokyo, Japan)
2024      Bawa, Amangalla (Galle, Sri Lanka)
2021      Explorations and Practice of KKAA, Shandong University of Art & Design (Remote: Tokyo, Japan & Jinan, China)


Awards

2021  Architectural Design Competition for European Film Center CAMERIMAGE Building (Toruń, Poland)
2020  Lighting Category Winner of Restaurant & Bar Design Awards (London, United Kingdom)
2017      Architectural Design Competition for New Taiwan Tower (Taichung)


Publications

2025      LLMs-Driven Full Lifecycle Architectural Design, ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (New Orleans, USA)
2022      LingoBIM: From Words to Design, URBAN Magazine (New York, USA)
2021      World House Projects 2021, GA HOUSE 175 (Tokyo, Japan)
2017      National Academic Conference of the Architectural Institute of Japan (Hiroshima, Japan) Exhibitions

2025      Fujilism, JAPANISM (New York, USA)
2025      Archtalk, SIA Annual Exhibition 2025 (New York, USA)
2022      Italia B&B Furniture Design,Triennale di Milano (Milan, Italy)
2021      LA Brooktree House, GA Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)