The Museum of Western Art by Le Corbusier in Tokyo Japan
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The National Museum of Western Art, designed by Le Corbusier, was the premier public art gallery in Nippon specializing in fine art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, key Tokyo. The museum is also known past the English language acronym NMWA (National Museum of Western Art).
National Museum of Western Art Technical Information
- Architects: Le Corbusier | Biography & Bibliography
- Supervisors: Junzo Sakakura, Kunio Maekawa, Takamasa Yoshizaka
- Typology: Cultural Architecture / Museum
- Location:7-vii Ueno-Koen, Taito-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Building structure: Reinforced concrete
- Construction: Shimizu Corporation
- Completion: February 28, 1959
- Site surface area: ane,587 square meters
- Gross flooring infinite: 4,399 square meters
- Exhibition galleries: i,533 square meters
- Images: © Courtesy of XIA ZHI
The modular, which Le Corbusier developed after many years of enquiry, is like a musical calibration which gives order to the infinitude of possible musical pitches. Based on the size and proportions of the homo body, it is a means of fitting architecture to the human spirit, of ordering the infinitude of possible proportions in such a way as to brand them arrange to the human shape. In the new Museum of Western Art, the modulor system has been observed in everything from the structural members to the architectural details and furnishings
– Tadayoshi, Fujikii
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Le Corbusier in Tokyo – NMWA
The Main Edifice was designed by the Swiss builder Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887–1965) and opened to the public in 1959. Information technology is the only representative example of his piece of work in the Far Due east. The New York Times review of its opening suggested that the building itself presented an "artistic significance and beauty," which rivaled the paintings inside.
The museum was built to house the collection of works gathered by the industrialist Matsukata Kojiro between 1920 and 1923. His collection had remained in England and France until after Earth State of war Ii when the Japanese Regime asked France its return. After French republic stipulated that a French architect should design the museum that would firm the drove, the works were returned to Japan. Le Corbusier was selected for this task.
Le Corbusier designed a master program to include the area surrounding the museum. The pattern itself evolved into a building far exceeding the original brief, and the library, a small-scale lecture hall, and a room for distinguished guests had to exist removed. Notwithstanding, the removed elements were retained on the plans to guide the future extension.
Le Corbusier asked that his three Japanese apprentices: Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura, and Takamasa Yoshizaka, be responsible for developing the detailed drawings and supervising the construction.
The museum is square in plan, with the main body of the galleries raised on piloti to the start-flooring level. The layout is influenced by Le Corbusier'due south Sanskar Kendra museum in Ahmedabad, which was being designed simultaneously.
Externally the edifice is clad in prefabricated concrete panels which sit on U-shaped frames supported by the inner wall. The building generally is constructed of reinforced concrete, and the columns take a smooth concrete finish.
National Museum of Western Art Plans
National Museum of Western Fine art Flooring Plans
National Museum of Western Art Sections
National Museum of Western Fine art Gallery
- Tadayoshi, Fujiki, August 1959 "The Modular in the National Museum of Western Art" Japan Architect, p48
- Text extracts from Wikipedia
About Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887 -1965), was an international influential Swiss builder and city planner whose designs combined the functionalism of the modern movement with bold, sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the International School of Architecture. In his architecture, he joined thefunctionalist aspirations of his generation with a potent sense of expressionism. He was the beginning builder to make a studied use of rough-cast concrete, satisfying his taste for asceticism and sculptural forms. In 2016, 17 of his architectural works were named Globe Heritage sites by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
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