Kiyonori Kikutake

(April 1, 1928 – December 26, 2011) was an important Japanese architect. He start the Japanese Metabolist group of architects. He also taught several important Japanese architects, such as Toyo Ito, Shōzō Uchii and Itsuko Hasegawa.

Early life
Kikutake was born in 1928 in Kurume, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University in 1950.

Career
Kikutake's most important work is his "Marine City" project in 1958. This project became part of the Metabolist Manifesto at the World Design Conference in Tokyo in 1960. Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa were asked to show work at the "Visionary Architecture" exhibition in New York of 1961. This made the Metabolists known internationally.

He became assistant professor at Waseda University in 1959 in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He became a professor at Chiba Institute of Technology in 1989. He returned to Waseda from 1993-1998 as a visiting professor in the Research Institute for Science and Engineering.

Kikutake worked until he died in 2011. He designed several important public buildings in Japan. He also taught internationally. He was President and then Honorary President of the Japan Institute of Architects.

Awards
Kikutake won many awards both in Japan and internationally. These include the Japan Academy of Architecture Prize (1970) and the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes) Auguste Perret Prize (1978).

List of works
Sky House, Tokyo, 1958
Marine City, 1958
Tatebayashi Civic Centre, 1963
Administrative building of Izumo Shrine,  1963
Pacific Hotel, Chigasaki, 1966
Miyakonojo Civic Hall, 1966
Expo Tower, Expo '70, Osaka, 1969
Matsumi Tower, 1976
Tanabe Art Museum, 1979
Hotel Seiyo, Ginza, Tokyo, 1987
Edo-Tokyo Museum, 1993
Hotel Sofitel, Tokyo, 1994
Shimane Art Museum, 1999
National Showa Memorial Museum, 1999
Kyushu National Museum, 2005

References

Kisho Kurokawa, "The Origin and History of the Metabolist Movement" - Charles Jencks, Kisho Kurokawa. Studio Vista, 1976
Botond Bognar, "Beyond the Bubble: Contemporary Japanese Architecture" ; Phaidon, 2008

Other websites
K. Kikutake Architects
 Marine City, 1958

Category:1928 births
Category:2011 deaths
Category:People from Fukuoka Prefecture
Category:Japanese architects
Category:Waseda University alumni