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Kunio Maekawa

1905 - 1986

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Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男, Maekawa Kunio, 14 May 1905 – 26 June 1986) was a Japanese architect and a key figure in Japanese postwar modernism. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his own architectural language after establishing his own firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design and European modernism throughout his career. Firmly insistent that both civic and vernacular architecture should be rendered through a modernist lens appropriate to the contemporary lifestyle of the Japanese people, Maekawa's early work and competition entries consistently pushed back against the dominant Imperial Crown Style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunio Maekawa has received more than 61,574 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kunio Maekawa is the 387th most popular architect (down from 374th in 2019), the 1,135th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,076th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Architect.

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  • 16

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kunio Maekawa ranks 387 out of 424. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Jan Kotěra, Peter Cook, George Bähr, Vasily Stasov, and Martin Gropius. After him are Jan Wils, Juan Gómez de Mora, Alessandro Antonelli, Matvey Kazakov, Johann Friedrich Höger, and Franco Albini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Kunio Maekawa ranks 230. Before him are Zakaria Goneim, Vladimír Holan, Jenő Rejtő, Walther Müller, D. R. Kaprekar, and Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald. After him are Lev Schnirelmann, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Hadiya Davletshina, Ashley Montagu, and Jean De Clercq. Among people deceased in 1986, Kunio Maekawa ranks 179. Before him are Ronald McNair, Thad Jones, Ludwig Biermann, D. R. Kaprekar, Neerja Bhanot, and Lothar Bolz. After him are Hyman G. Rickover, Floyd Gottfredson, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Vicente Trueba, Gerhard Rohlfs, and Oleg Goncharenko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunio Maekawa ranks 1,135 out of 6,048. Before him are Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Gyoji Matsumoto (1934), Shinji Okazaki (1986), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Moto Hagio (1949), and Mitsugu Nomura (1956). After him are Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Takeshi Ono (1944), Tsuru Aoki (1892), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), Hiroshi Kamiya (1975), and Riichi Yokomitsu (1898).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Kunio Maekawa ranks 9. Before him are Arata Isozaki (1931), Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Shigeru Ban (1957), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), and Kengo Kuma (1954). After him are Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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