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  • TSUCHIURA House

    • Category: Detached house
    • Architect: Kameki TSUCHIURA
    • Construction: Akiyama-gumi
    • Year: 1935
    • Location: Tokyo
    • In Shinagawa, in Tokyo, stands a small yet remarkably modern house built in 1935. Kameki Tsuchiura, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed it as his own house. He utilized a dry-wall, wooden construction method to shorten construction time and hence, reduced the cost. His house, painted in pure white, boldly expressed a cheerful and optimistic belief. On the outside, it is a simple white cube with a large opening. The inside, however, offers a much richer milieu of spatial composition with a sequence of spaces. At each step, the space is at once expanded and liberated, then quickly compressed and contained, much in a Wrightian mode. He treated space as a malleable medium, and created a fluid spatial progression that was simply rewarding and delightful to experience. Likewise, his designs for the built-in furniture such as kitchen cabinets, as well as pipe-framed chairs in Marcel Breuer fashion show his belief in modernist intentions. Coupled with the dry-wall construction method and his irresistible display of the modernist persuasion, the architectural presence of his works has had a lasting and profound influence on the development of the modern movement in Japan.
    • Current Condition: Relocated and reconsruction in 2024.
    • Cultural Property Info: Tokyo Metropolitan Government-designated cultural property
    • docomomo選定年度：1999
    • 地方自治体登録文化財：1995
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    Detached house

    • G邸

      G邸

    • まつかわ・ぼっくす

      まつかわ・ぼっくす

    • コアのあるH氏のすまい

      コアのあるH氏のすまい

    • スカイハウス

      スカイハウス

    • セキスイハイムM１

      セキスイハイムM１

    Tokyo

    • NCRビル

      NCRビル

    • SPIRAL

      SPIRAL

    • まつかわ・ぼっくす

      まつかわ・ぼっくす

    • コアのあるH氏のすまい

      コアのあるH氏のすまい

    • スカイハウス

      スカイハウス

    1930～1939

    • 大阪中央郵便局

      大阪中央郵便局

    • 長者原発電所

      長者原発電所

    • 傷痍軍人東京療養所外気小舎

      傷痍軍人東京療養所外気小舎

    • 横須賀海仁会病院

      横須賀海仁会病院

    • 東大付属植物園本館

      東大付属植物園本館