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Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta houses buried in tombs and by remains of pit houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan. Religious Architectur... Read more

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Kunio Maekawa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Kunio Maekawa Prominent among modern Japanese architects, Kunio Maekawa (1905-1986) served an apprenticeship...structures and high-rise apartments. Kunio Maekawa was born in May 14, 1905, in Niigata... Read more
Kenzo Tange
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...planning and design between 1942 and 1945. The four intervening years were spent in the Tokyo architectural firm of Kunio Maekawa, who had worked in the Paris office of the great Swiss architect Le Corbusier and who was one of a small number of... Read more

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Maekawa, Kunio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Maekawa, Kunio or Mayekawa, Kunio (1905–86). Japanese architect. He worked for Le Corbusier and Raymond before setting up on his own in 1935. He brought International Modernism to Japan, and was a pioneer there of reinforced-concrete construction... Read more
Mayekawa, Kunio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Mayekawa, Kunio (1905–86). See Maekawa . Read more

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Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Kenzo Tange)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/2005; 548 words ; ...postwar period, died Mar. 22 of heart failure. After graduating from architecture school in Tokyo, Tange worked for Kunio Maekawa, a major architect who had apprenticed to Le Corbusier. Tange and his own firm, in turn, mentored some of the most... Read more
Kenzo Tange (1913-2005).(outrage)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...but resumed his postgraduate studies there during the war before beginning his professional career in the office of Kunio Maekawa who had worked for Le Corbusier in his Paris office. Tange became committed to the Modern Movement ideas of Le Corbusier... Read more