Learning path
This route starts from modernist spatial grammar and moves through a Tokyo museum, postwar public architecture, and the Metabolist generation.
Style
Begin with modernism as a language of structure, function, and free plan.
Architect
Le Corbusier connected city, housing, bodily scale, and public architecture.
Building
The National Museum of Western Art made modernism institutionally visible in Japan.
Architect
Kunio Maekawa translated Corbusian lessons into Japanese public architecture.
Architect
Kenzo Tange joined postwar monumentality, structural expression, and urban imagination.
Building
Yoyogi National Gymnasium condenses cable structure, civic ceremony, and modern space.
Architect
Fumihiko Maki carried collective form and refined publicness into the next generation.