Oral history interview with Robert Hanamura
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hanamura, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Miro, Marsha
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Michigan -- Detroit
label: Topic
content: Asian American architects
label: Topic
content: Japanese American art
label: Topic
content: Japanese American artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Michigan -- Detroit
label: Topic
content: Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment -- 1942-1945
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hanamura, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Miro, Marsha
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Hanamura (1923-2020) was a Japanese American architect based in Detroit, Michigan.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hanamu77
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Robert Hanamura conducted circa 1977, by Marsha Miro, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hanamura speaks of his youth as the son of Japanese immigrants; time spent in an internment camp during World War II; his education; and his career as an architect.