Taiji Miyasaka began teaching at Washington State University in 2002 after ten years of professional experience at architecture firms in New York and the Netherlands. In the School of Design and Construction, he served as Architecture Program Head from 2012-2015. He has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios at every year level, as well as created a graduate tectonics seminar and a study abroad course on Japanese architecture. Winner of an ACSA Design-Build Award and an ACSA Faculty Design Award, Miyasaka's teaching is informed by research in the areas of materiality, design process/communication, and design pedagogy. His book, Seeing and Making in Architecture: Design Exercises, investigates the practices of rigorous observation and material experimentation for manifesting ingenuity in the design process. Miyasaka’s creative work seeks to design and build architectural interventions that explore the role of materiality and context in discovering design potentials.

His project "Light Hole Shed," built using reclaimed timber from grain elevators in eastern Washington, won a design award in the AIA Seattle 2012 Honor Awards. "Night Blooming," a 13-foot-high catenary dome made collaboratively with David Drake, was originally installed at Bellevue Arts Museum and is now permanently on view at the Bellevue Botanical Garden. “Circum·ambience” is an installation of three spherical sculptures, including a 13-foot inhabitable structure made of clay and wood using traditional Japanese plaster construction methods. It was exhibited at MadArt Studio, Seattle from January to March, 2019. Miyasaka’s research also includes the invention and development of a building block material made of drywall waste in collaboration with David Drake. The project has been funded by an AIA Upjohn Research Grant, an Amazon Catalyst Grant, and the WSU Commercialization Gap Fund.