Kunio Maekawa

Kunio Maekawa
Maekawa House in the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
Born	14 May 1905 Niigata, Niigata
Died	26 June 1986
Nationality	Japan
Work
Buildings	The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男, Maekawa Kunio^?, 14 May 1905-26 June 1986) was a Japanese architect.

Formative years

He entered First Tokyo Middle School in 1918, and then Tokyo Imperial University in 1925.^[1] After graduation in 1928, he travelled to France to apprentice with Le Corbusier. In 1930 he returned to Japan and worked with Antonin Raymond, and in 1935 established his own office. His own house has been described as his starting point, in which he brought the idea of piloti inside the house, to create a two-storey space. The original house has been dismantled and relocated to the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum.^[2]

Selected projects

• 1932 Kimura Industrial Laboratory, Hirosaki, Aomori
• 1942 Maekawa House
• 1952 Nippon Sogo Bank, Tokyo
• 1954 Kanagawa Prefectural Library and Music Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• 1955 The International House of Japan, Tokyo (with Junzo Sakakura and Junzo Yoshimura)
• 1956 Fukushima Education Center, Fukushima
• 1960 Kyoto Kaikan, Kyoto
• 1961 Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Ueno, Tokyo

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  Kanagawa Prefectural Library and Music Hall, Yokohama (1954)

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  The International House of Japan, Tokyo (1955)

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  Fukushima Education Center, Fukushima (1956)

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  Setagaya Ward Office

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  Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Head Office (1974)

References

Notes

1. ^ Reynolds 2001, pp. 38–44
2. ^ Fujimori 2008

Sources

• Reynolds, Jonathan M. (2001), Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture, University of California Press, ISBN 0520214951 
• Fujimori, Terunobu (2008), "Modernism and the Roots of Contemporary Architecture", Kateigaho International Edition 20 (3), http://int.kateigaho.com/list_26.html, retrieved 2010-03-29 

External links

• Mayekawa Associates
• Daniell, Thomas On Kunio Maekawa

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Name	Maekawa, Kunio
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Date of birth	14 May 1905
Place of birth	Niigata, Niigata
Date of death	26 June 1986
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