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The MoMA in Kamakura and Le Corbusier’s Disciples

The MoMA in Kamakura and Le Corbusier’s Disciples

Nov 28, 2011

The Japanese architect Sakakura Junzō 坂倉 準三 (1901-1969) led a charmed life. The man with a degree in art history from the Tokyo Imperial University was accepted into Le Corbusier’s atelier in Paris, stayed there for seven years, and then went on to become one of the most famous modernist architects in Japan. It seems that Sakakura only formally...