Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima are Principals of Bureau EAST. Bureau EAST’s Fez river rehabilitation project won the 2008 Holcim Gold Award in Sustainable Construction and the 2009 EDRA best places award.
Aziza Chaouni studied architecture at the GSD and civil engineering at Columbia University. She is the director of the research board of DOCOMOMO Morocco, a chapter of an international organization that seeks the preservation of the modern heritage. She was awarded the 2007 Progressive Architecture award for her research project, “Hybrid Urban Sutures” and was the 2006 Aga Khan Visiting Fellow at the GSD. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Prior to founding Bureau EAST with Aziza Chaouni, Takako Tajima was senior designer at Urban Studio in Los Angeles where she worked on urban design projects including design reviews of major projects for the City of Santa Monica, Santa Ana, and Pasadena. She was the lead on project coordination and concept development for the urban design component of the West Hollywood General Plan Update and the Ocean Park Boulevard Green Street Project in Santa Monica.
Takako Tajima studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning from the GSD.
Her work in landscape architecture includes the landscape master plan for San Bernardino Valley College and a proposal for an ecotourism and agritourism resort outside Shanghai, China, which was awarded an ASLA Professional Honor Award. She has also worked for Reed Hilderbrand and Associates in Watertown Massachusetts, developing exhibition materials for a project in collaboration with Tadao Ando and for Davis + Gannon Architecture contributing to projects such as the Pittsburgh Glass Center which was awarded LEED Gold.
[last updated 20-Mar-10]