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Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne)

The Museum of East Asian Art (Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln) opened in Cologne, Germany in 1913 and is the oldest of its kind in the country. The collection of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art originates in that of its founders Adolf Fischer (de) (1856–1914) and his wife Frieda (de) (1874–1945). The new building by architect Kunio Maekawa, pupil of Le Corbusier, opened in 1977.

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Neustadt-Süd, Neustadt-Süd, Germany

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Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne) in Neustadt-Süd, Germany

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Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…

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Mayekawa Associates

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