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
Archival Collections
ANDO Tadao Early Architectural Drawings
These are a part of the collection of handwritten original design drawings from the establishment of the office (30 projects), made of about 1400 drawings. Many of them are drawn in pencil on tracing paper, including peculiarly expressed architectural drawings where various elements of architecture are integrated into a single drawing.
ANDO Tadao (1941-)
Self-educated in architecture and established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. In 1997, professor at the University of Tokyo. Currently, emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and honorary director of NAMA. Visiting professor of Yale, Columbia, and Harvard University.
Major Works
- 1976 Row House in Sumiyoshi
- 1983 Rokko Housing I
- 1984 TIME’s I
- 1988 Church on the Water
- 1989 Church of the Light
- 1992 Benesse House
- 2000 Awaji-Yume Butai
- 2002 International Library of Children’s Literature, National Diet Library
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - 2004 Chichu Art Museum
- 2006 Omotesando Hills (Omotesando Regeneration Project)
- 2007 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT
- 2009 Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center
- 2014 Shanghai Poly Center
- 2020 Nakanoshima Children’s Book Forest
- 2021 Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection
Past Exhibitions in NAMA
- Early Drawings of Tadao Ando: Autonomy and Dialogue, 2019
National Archives of Modern Architecture (NAMA) 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition “Japan Architects in NAMA”
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The decision to establish the National Archives of Modern Architecture (NAMA) was made in November 2012, and NAMA was opened in May 2013. This year it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Modern Japanese architecture is highly recognized worldwide, and some items are collected at famous museums abroad. NAMA was established to preserve and archive this new architectural culture of Japan within the country. In the last ten years, NAMA’s total archival collection has increased to more than 30 fonds (units of archival collections), and more than 200,000 architectural items, mainly hand drawings, are in storage. The items include drawings, sketches, reference materials, and albums, with the content of each collection differing. This exhibition will show the history of modern architecture through the wide variety of our collections.
The NAMA’s archival collection of the works of twelve architects who have created the modern architecture of Japan will be exhibited in two parts, along with an introduction to NAMA’s activities through the decade.
Part 1: Awake and Beginning
Works by architects that marked the beginning point in their architectural history and works and activities that contributed mainly to the development of modern Japanese architecture are exhibited. Part 1 will follow the thoughts of each architect that led to the idea and realization of these works and how these architectural works are evaluated in society and architectural history.
Part 2: Leap and Challenge
Various inexhaustible challenges by the architects will be shown. Architects take on many challenges over their lifetimes and Part 2 shows their creativity and ways of life, including their representative works and unfinished masterpieces as well ambitious applications for competitions.
- Organization：Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
- Cooperation：Tokyo Metropolitan Parks Association
- Venue：National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs (4-6-15 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)）
- Date：Part 1 From Tuesday, July 25, to Sunday, October 15, 2023
Closed on Mondays (Open on holidays that fall on a Monday, in which case the following day will be closed; open on September 18, October 9; closed on September 19, October 10)
Part 2 From Wednesday, November 1, 2023, to Sunday, February 4, 2024
Closed on Thursday, December 28, to Thursday, January 4, due to year-end and new-year holidays. Closed on Mondays (Open on holidays that fall on a Monday, in which case the following day will be closed; open on January 8; closed on January 9)
Open hours：10:00～16:30
Contents
Works to be exhibited (Part 1)
⋆ The works exhibited may be changed.
YOSHIDA Tetsuro: Beppu City Public Hall,1928
KISHIDA Hideto: Diaries, Photographs and Writings on Overseas Inspections, c.1925-1936
SAKAKURA Junzo: Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura,1951
MAYEKAWA Kunio: Harumi Apartments, 1958
TANGE Kenzo: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 1955
YOSIZAKA Takamasa: Villa Coucou, 1957
OTAKA Masato: Chiba Prefectural Cultural Center, Chiba Prefectural Central Library, 1967-1968
TAKAHASHI Teiichi: Saga Prefectural Library, Collaborated with UCHIDA Yoshichika, 1962
OTANI Sachio: Kyoto International Conference Center, 1963-1966
KIKUTAKE Kiyonori: Izumo Taisha, Cho-no Ya, 1963
HARA Hiroshi: AWAZU House, 1972
ANDO Tadao: Row House in Sumiyoshi,1976
Works to be exhibited (Part 2)
⋆ The works exhibited may be changed.
YOSHIDA Tetsuro: Tokyo Central Post Office (1928), Entry for Competition of Chureito Memorials to War Dead (1939)
KISHIDA Hideto: Golf Courses and Clubhouses
SAKAKURA Junzo: West Side Plaza of Shinjuku Railway Station (1966), New Administration Office of Kanagawa Prefecture (1966)
MAYEKAWA Kunio: Entry for Competition of the Center Pompidou (1971), Entry for Competition of the Supreme Court in Japan (1968) TANGE Kenzo: National Sports Complex Singapore (1972)
YOSIZAKA Takamasa: Inter-University Seminar House (1965)
OTAKA Masato: Entry for Kyoto International Conference Center Competition (1963), Hiroshima Motomachi Apartment (1978) TAKAHASHI Teiichi: Naniwa University of Arts, Design Competition [1st Prize] (1964), Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (2001)
OTANI Sachio: Entry for Kyoto International Conference Center Competition [1st Prize] (1963), Entry for Competition of the Supreme Court in Japan (1968)
KIKUTAKE Kiyonori: Ocean City, Entry for Kyoto International Conference Center Competition (1963), Aquapolis, International Ocean Exposition (1975)
HARA Hiroshi: Media Park Köln Invited International Urban Design Competition (1988), Modal Space of Consciousness (1984)
ANDO Tadao: Church on the Water (1988)
Concurrently held events * Latest information will be updated on the internet.
- Theater NAMA
- Various oral histories created by NAMA so far will be specially screened during the exhibition period.
- What is an architectural archive?
- The event shows how NAMA collects and organizes items and a look behind the scenes at NAMA. Educational videos will also be shown.
- Special lectures
- Special lectures by architects will be held as a related event during the exhibition period.
- Modern architecture tour
- A special tour of existing architecture designed by architects featured in the NAMA 10th anniversary exhibition.
Inquiry
National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs
https://nama.bunka.go.jp
TEL 03-3812-3401
Email: nama@mext.go.jp