KIKUTAKE Kiyonori Archive

These are drawing materials (about 15,000 pieces) prepared after 1953 among those prepared by the architect KIKUTAKE Kiyonori and by the KIKUTAKE Architectural Studio (renamed KIKUTAKE Kiyonori Architectural Office in 1962). As of 2023, the materials are being collected for further endowment.


KIKUTAKE Kiyonori

KIKUTAKE Kiyonori entered Architecture Department, Special Engineering Division of Waseda University in 1944, and entered Architectural Department, School of Science and Engineering of Waseda University in 1947. After graduating from Architectural Department, School of Science and Engineering of Waseda University in 1950, he joined Takenaka Corporation. He then joined Murano Mori Architectural Design Office in 1952. He established KIKUTAKE Architectural Studio in 1953 (renamed KIKUTAKE Kiyonori Architectural Office in 1962), and became a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, School of Science and Engineering of Waseda University in 1959.


Major Works

  • 1956  Ishibashi Culture Hall
  • 1958  Sky house
  • 1960  Ocean City, Unabara
  • 1963  Izumo Shrine, Cho-no ya
  • 1964  Hotel Tokoen
  • 1965  Tokuunji Temple Columbarium
  • 1966  Miyakonojo Civic Center
  • 1968  Miyakonojo Civic Center
  • 1969  Osaka Expo Tower
  • 1972  Kyoto Community Bank, Nishijin Branch
  • 1974  Pasadena Heights
  • 1975  Aquapolis,International Ocean Exposition
  • 1987  Ginza Theatre Hotel
  • 1992  Edo-Tokyo Museum
  • 2004  Kyushu National Museum

Past Exhibitions in NAMA

  • The Spirit of Architecture Kiyonori KIKUTAKE in Architectural Archives, 2014
  • Museums by Japanese Architects 1940s -1980s: Origins and Trajectories, 2020
    Contents Ishibashi Culture Center / Art Museum, Shimane Prefectural Museum, Hatakeyama Art Museum (schematic plan)
  • Designing Home : Masterpiece Houses from NAMA’s Collection 1940-1975, 2021
    Contents Sky house, Inoue House.
  • Kodomonokuni:Children’s Land -Nature, Future and Metabolism Architecture [Concurrent exhibition] NAMA’s Recent Collections, 2022 Contents Summer Camp.