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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is a museum of art located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government. The first public art museum in Japan, it opened in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum and was renamed in 1943 after Tokyo became a metropolitan prefecture. The museum's current building was constructed in 1975 and designed by modernist archi…

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1926

Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Role: lead architect

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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

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Role: designer

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