Kunio Maekawa
Birthday	Sunday, May 14, 1905
Birthplace	Niigata, Niigata
Died	Thursday, June 26, 1986
Nationality	Japan

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Maekawa, Kunio

(also K. Mayekawa). Born May 14, 1905, in Niigata-shi, in Niigata Prefecture. Japanese architect.

Maekawa worked and studied under Le Corbusier in Paris between 1928 and 1930. He was one of the first in Japan to adopt rationalism. In the 1950’s and 1960’s he designed sculpturally expressive structures by combining national traditions with the structural and aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete. Maekawa designed many public buildings, including municipal buildings in Fukushima (1958) and Hirosaki (1964); cultural centers in Tokyo (1959), Kyoto (1960), Okayama (1962), and Urawa (1966); and the Gakushuin University in Tokyo (1960).

REFERENCE

Altherr, A. Three Japanese Architects: Mayekawa… . New York, 1968.

References in periodicals archive

The decision taken in the 1960s to appoint Kunio Maekawa to build a new museum reflected the growing prosperity and optimism of this cultural and economic capital of the Rhineland.

The terrace of the 1970s museum building, designed by Kunio Maekawa, on the edge of the Aachener Weiher, Cologne

HAUT DE COLOGNE

Tange graduated from Tokyo University in 1938 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.

Kenzo Tange (1913-2005)

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