Kazuo Shinohara

Kazuo Shinohara (Japanese筱 原 一 男, born April 2, 1925 in Shizuoka, † 15 July, 2006 Kawasaki ) was a Japanese architect of late modernity.

Life

Shinohara holds a degree in mathematics and completed in 1953 to study architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology ( TIT ) at Kiyoshi Seiki. He then opened his own studio. In 1970, he was Professor of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

With his first building, the 1954 -built " dwelling house Kugayama " he already achieved international attention; he combined the design of the Katsura Palace with the architecture of Mies van der Rohe. Later, the " House in White " (1966), "House Shibuya " (1976), followed by " House in Yokohama" (1979 ) and the "Century Hall " (1987) on the campus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Shinohara was considered a theorist who has an entire generation of Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Itsuko Hasegawa coined. In the 1980s, he was considered the "progressive anarchist " of Tokyo's urban development.

He was awarded the grand prize at the " Architectural Institute of Japan ( AIJ ) ," 2005.