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Togo
Murano

村野藤吾 Born 1891 A different face for the large building and the small one.

One of the leading figures of Japanese modernism, known for the Memorial Cathedral for World Peace in Hiroshima and the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo. He designed buildings for the Miyako Hotel (now The Westin Miyako Kyoto) over half a century.

Hotels
1hotels
Regions
1regions
Works
6works
Techniques
Sukiya style

Works.

Selected works, and where you can stay
  1. 1936 Miyako Hotel, Building No. 5 Kyoto
  2. 1954 Memorial Cathedral for World Peace Hiroshima
  3. 1959 Kasui-en (The Westin Miyako Kyoto) Higashiyama, Kyoto Stay
  4. 1960 Miyako Hotel, new main building Kyoto
  5. 1963 Nissay Theatre Tokyo
  6. 1969 Miyako Hotel, south wing Kyoto
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Hotels.

Togo Murano — hotels
Kasui-en (The Westin Miyako Kyoto)Higashiyama, Kyoto1960Kasui-en (The Westin Miyako Kyoto)Stay beneath thin roofs.Sukiya style

Columns.

Read about the techniques
i.Sukiya styleArchitecture that loosens formality: how to read sukiyaSukiya is architecture that brought the thinking of the tea room into the home. Pillars without sharp corners, no nageshi rail, an alcove free of fixed rules. Set it beside the formal shoin style and you see how sukiya created lightness by choosing what not to do. From Katsura Imperial Villa to modern sukiya and Kasui-en.

Other architects

5 architects
Kingo Tatsuno辰野金吾 Jin Watanabe渡辺仁 Togo Murano村野藤吾 Kenzo Tange丹下健三 Tadao Ando安藤忠雄