MAYEKAWA Kunio Archive
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.
KISHIDA Hideto Collection
The collection comprises architectural design drawings by KISHIDA and his materials. The drawings consist of about 80 items drawn from 1950 to 1963. The latter includes a diary documenting his travel in Western countries (1925), negative films of overseas travel, including the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin (around the period from 1937 to 1939), a diary containing a review of the Olympics (1960), and his collection of books, including his works. The drawings are all digitalized.
KISHIDA Hideto
KISHIDA Hideto graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering of Tokyo Imperial University in 1922 (his graduation work was “Plan on Prison Architecture”). In the same year, he started working in the Building and Repairs Division of Tokyo Imperial University and became an assistant professor in 1925.From November 1925 to October 1926, he traveled on duty to Europe and the U.S. He received a doctoral degree in engineering with his “Modern Architectural History in Europe” thesis in 1929 and became a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. MAYEKAWA Kunio and TANGE Kenzo are his disciples. He visited Germany from June to October 1936, where he observed the Summer Olympics in Berlin. In 1959, he became a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and took office as the Special Committee on Facilities Chair for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Major Works
- 1925 Yasuda Auditorium, the University of Tokyo
- 1928 Main Library, the University of Tokyo
- 1934 Musashino Country Club Clubhouse
- 1937 Tombstone of Professor TSUKAMOTO Yasushi
- 1939 Japan Pavilion, New York Expo 1939
- 1951 Imperial Palace Outer Garden Rest Hous
- 1953 Seihu Temple
- 1955 Yugawara Country Club Clubhouse
- 1957 Yumoto Hachimancho Golf Course
- 1959 Yamanaka Vill
- 1960 Toda Country Clubhouse
Residence for Speaker of the House of Representative
Hongwanji Tsumura Betsuin - 1962 Kochi Prefectural Government Main Building
- 1966 Kyuutoshoguuhomotsuka
Past Exhibitions in NAMA
- Designing Home : Masterpiece Houses from NAMA’s Collection 1940-1975, 2021
Contents Residence for Chaiman of the House of Representatives. - Kodomonokuni：Children’s Land -Nature, Future and Metabolism Architecture [Concurrent exhibition] NAMA’s Recent Collections, 2022
Contents Hongwanji Tsumura Betsuin, Camera from KISHIDA’s Former Collection (Leica Ⅲa)
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.
HARA Hiroshi + Atelier Phi Architectural Drawings
The archives comprise architectural design drawings (about 15,000 pieces) and sketch materials (about 4,000 pieces). The drawings mainly include works up to 2000, while the sketch materials include works after 2000. Major works are covered exhaustively and include materials from before the establishment of Atelier Phi (RAS Architecture Institute). Many drawings and sketches for major projects, such as the Kyoto Station Building and New Umeda Sky Building, are left, allowing the views to follow the design process in detail. Many large sketches illustrate the entire elevation surface on paper larger than A0 sheets, showing that the unique design is generated based on through consideration.
In addition to materials for realized works, there are also many materials for a wide variety of challenging projects, for instance, the Yukotai no Sekai [The World of Porous Body] and Parc de la Villette: Paris International Design Competition, as well as materials for works such as the Modal Space of Consciousness.
HARA Hiroshi (1936-)
HARA Hiroshi received a B.A. in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Tokyo. He became an associate professor at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo in 1982, a professor there in 1987, and emeritus professor in 1997. He began to collaborate with Atelier Φ in 1970.
Major Works
- 1964 Osaka University of Arts, formerly Naniwa University of Arts, Design Com
- 1967 Ito House
- 1970 Awazu House
- 1973 Hara House
- 1982 Parc de la Villette: Paris International Design Competition
- 1983 Tasaki Museum of Art
- 1984 Modal Space of Consciousness
- 1985 Yamato International
- 1986 Iida City Museum
- 1987 Media Park KÖln invited International Urban Design Competition
- 1991 Kyoto Station Building
- 1993 Miyagi Prefectural Library
- 1997 Sapporo Dome
- 2003 Fukushima Prefectural Aizu Gakuho Middle School and High School
Past Exhibitions in NAMA
- Architecture on Paper: Architectural Drawings of Japan 1970s – 1990s, 2017
Contents Hara House. - Museums by Japanese Architects 1940s -1980s: Origins and Trajectories, 2020
Contents Sueda Art Gallery, The Tasaki Museum of Art, Iida City Museum. - Designing Home: Masterpiece Houses from NAMA’s Collection 1940-1975, 2021
Contents Hara House. - HARA Hiroshi:“What is Possible in Architecture?”55 Years of Ideas About Yūkōtai (Porous Bodies) and Floating, 2022
