V počátcích své tvorby pracoval Maekawa převážně s dřevem, protože v Japonsku byl v důsledku válečného hospodářství nedostatek oceli. [2 ] Později se pod vlivem brutalistů zaměřil na betonové stavby.
Maekawa Kunio was a Japanese architect noted for his designs of community centres and his work in concrete. After graduation from Tokyo University in 1928, Maekawa studied with the architect Le Corbusier in Paris for two years.
On November 3rd, 1979, when he was 74, Maekawa and his team designed and opened The Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan. Inside, he filled two conference rooms with 40 chairs and 38 tables that he had also designed.
Biografie KunioMaekawa byl japonský architekt, který po promoci na tokijské univerzitě (1928) odešel na dva roky pracovat do pařížského ateliéru Le Corbusiera. Po návratu do Japonska spolupracoval s Antonínem Raymondem a v roce 1935 si…
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