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吉阪隆正

| 1917-02-13 | 1980-12-17

YOSIZAKA Takamasa

| 1917-02-13 | 1980-12-17

Names
  • 吉阪隆正
  • YOSIZAKA Takamasa (index name)
  • Yosizaka Takamasa (display name)
  • 吉阪隆正 (Japanese display name)
  • よしざか たかまさ (transliterated hiragana)
  • Yoshizaka Takamasa
Date of birth
1917-02-13
Birth place
Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture
Date of death
1980-12-17
Death place
Chūō-ku, Tokyo
Gender
Male
Fields of activity
  • Architecture

Wikipedia

Takamasa Yosizaka (吉阪 隆正, Yosizaka Takamasa, February 13, 1917—December 17, 1980), family name also romanized as Yosizaka, was a Japanese architect and former president of the Architectural Institute of Japan and a keen mountaineer.After graduating from university, he worked at Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris for two years working on projects in France and India. After his return to Japan, he collaborated on Le Corbusier's National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo in 1959. He set up his own practice called Atelier U in 1964.He proposed a theory of Discontinuous Unity and translated many of Le Corbusier's works from French into Japanese.

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VIAF ID
96215722
ULAN ID
500075597
AOW ID
_00802713
Grove Art Online ID
T092994
NDL ID
00098109
Wikidata ID
Q7677131
  • 2025-01-07