page_title: Josiah Conder (architect)
section_title: Notable buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Josiah Conder (architect) / Notable buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Iwasaki Family House and Garden, at Taito-ku Tokyo Japan, designed by Josiah Conder in 1896. 日本語: 旧岩崎庭園洋館、東京都台東区、ジョサイア・コンドル設計、1896年。
context_page_description: Josiah Conder was a British architect who was hired by the Meiji Japanese government as a professor of architecture for the Imperial College of Engineering and became architect of Japan's Public Works. He started his own practice after 1888.
  Conder designed numerous public buildings in Tokyo, including the Rokumeikan, which became a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. He educated young Japanese architects, notably Tatsuno Kingo and Katayama Tōkuma, earning him the nickname "father of Japanese modern architecture."
context_section_description: Conder's architectural designs incorporated a wide variety of styles, including European and colonial elements. Although he designed over fifty buildings during his career in Japan, many no longer exist.
  Notable buildings surviving today are the residence of Iwasaki Yanosuke, founder of the Mitsubishi group in Yushima (1896, now the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden) and the Mitsui Club in Mita (1913).
  Kummo-in school for the blind (1879)
  Ueno Imperial Museum, Tokyo (1881)
  Rokumeikan, Tokyo (1883)
  University of Tokyo's faculty of law and literature building, Hongo, Tokyo (1884)
  Iwasaki Villa, Fukagawa, Tokyo (1889); Burnt down by 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
  Holy Resurrection Cathedral (or Nikorai-do, 1891)
  Navy Ministry Building, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo (1895)
  St. Barnabas' Church, Ushigome, Tokyo (1897) (subsequently enlarged by Conder and reopened in 1907)
  Christ Church, Yokohama (1901), second church building at Yamate Bluff. (Destroyed in 1923 Great Kantō earthquake).
  Seisen University Main Hall (1915)
  Furukawa Toranosuke Villa, now Kyu-Furukawa Gardens,Tokyo (1917)
caption: Former Iwasaki Family House and Garden (1896)
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "4256", "Image ImageLength": "2848", "Image BitsPerSample": "[16, 16, 16]", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Make": "FUJIFILM", "Image Model": "FinePix S5Pro", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "352", "Image YResolution": "352", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2010:08:14 19:51:50", "Image Copyright": "", "Image ExifOffset": "592", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "636", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "750", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6453", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2239", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1512"}