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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 66,498 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kunio Maekawa is the 392nd most popular architect (down from 386th in 2019), the 1,178th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,132nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Architect.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kunio Maekawa ranks 392 out of 518. Before him are Vannoccio Biringuccio, Massimiliano Fuksas, Daniel Burnham, Aurelio Galfetti, Max Berg, and Vasily Stasov. After him are Walter Burley Griffin, Giuseppe Piermarini, Hermann Bollé, Juan Gómez de Mora, John Hejduk, and Michel de Klerk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Kunio Maekawa ranks 240. Before him are Raghunath Murmu, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, John Kuck, László Raffinsky, Floyd Gottfredson, and Leila Hyams. After him are Albrecht Unsöld, Walther Müller, Gilbert Roland, Baltasar Albéniz, Mikio Oda, and Bernt Evensen. Among people deceased in 1986, Kunio Maekawa ranks 184. Before him are Oldřich Lipský, John Kuck, Alicia Moreau de Justo, Michal Vičan, Guillermo Eizaguirre, and Floyd Gottfredson. After him are Aleksei Arbuzov, Hyman G. Rickover, Ludwig Biermann, Leif Erickson, Reinhold Münzenberg, and Jacques Plante.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunio Maekawa ranks 1,178 out of 6,245. Before him are Noriko Ohara (1935), Banjō Ginga (1948), Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), and Sakyo Komatsu (1931). After him are Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930), Hideo Nakata (1961), Seiki Ichihara (1950), Tura Satana (1938), Ikuo Takahara (1957), and Masayoshi Ito (1913).

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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 Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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