These archives comprise architectural design drawings/documents and photographs prepared at Mayekawa Kunio Associates, Architects & Engineers and Mayekawa Associates, Architects & Engineers (1976-). Materials are classified roughly into the following two categories: (1) company records (copy of written contracts for construction works), and (2) project records (architectural design drawings and documents, sketches, specification documents, photographs of construction work, photographs of the completion of constructions, etc.). The archives contain about 5,800 drawings (original) mainly for demolished or planned projects and many applications for famous design competitions in Japan and abroad, such as the Supreme Court of Japan, Vienna International Centre, and Centre Pompidou.

MAYEKAWA Kunio

MAYEKAWA Kunio graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1928. In the same year, he joined the office of Le Corbusier. After returning to Japan in 1930, he joined Raymond Architectural Design Office. He established Mayekawa Kunio Associates, Architects & Engineers in 1935.

Major Works

• 1931　Entry for Competition to Design Imperial Household Museum
• 1934　Kimura Industrial Research Center
• 1941　Hua Hsing Commercial Bank Shanghai Domitories
• 1942　Mayekawa House
• 1946　PREMOS:Prefablicated Housing
• 1947　Kinokuniya Bookstore
• 1954　Kanagawa Prefectural Library and Music Hall
• 1958　Harumi High-Rise Apartment
• 1961　Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall
• 1971　Saitama Prefectural Museum
• 1974　Tokio Matine Building
• 1975　Tokyo Metropolitan Art Meseum
• 1977　Kumamoto Prefectral Meseum of Art
• 1979　The National Museum of West Art, New Wing
• 1986　National Diet Library Annex

Past Exhibitions in NAMA

• Le Corbusier and Japan With a Focus on the Three Apprentices who Built the National Museum of Western Art, 2015
  Contents Hua Hsing Commercial Bank Shanghai Domitories, Harumi High-Rise Apartment, New York World’s Fair Japan Pavilion.
• Designing Home : Masterpiece Houses from NAMA’s Collection 1940-1975, 2021
  Contents Hua Hsing Commercial Bank Shanghai Domitories, PREMOS:Prefablicated Housing, NHK Fujimigaoka Club House.