John Barr
 

The Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Centre is one of the few built examples of the theories developed by the Japanese Metabolist group.

Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi Stadium came to symbolise the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and Japan's return to the world stage.

St. Mary's Cathedral Tokyo was opened in the same year as the Yoyogi Olympic Stadia designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices (1958) offered a radical new vision of what Japanese public buildings might be.

The background to the Hiroshima Peace Centre hardly needs to be explained: the first use of the Atomic Bomb and the deaths of over 200,000.

In the 20th century Katsura Imperial Villa became a kind of touchstone for the essence of Japanese architecture.

For Japanese architects, 1933 was a pivotal year in their search for a Japanese modernism.