ASHIHARA Yoshinobu

芦原義信 (1918 – 2003)

1918 born in Tôkyô |1942 graduates from “Tôkyô University” | 1946-47 works for SAKAKURA Junzô | 1953 Master from “Harvard University”, Cambridge | 1953-56 works for Marcel Breuer in New York | 1956 founds own company | 1961 receives PhD from Tôkyô University | 1976-78 vice president of the “Architectural Institute of Japan” | 1977-85 employs his son ASHIHARA Tarô | 1980-82 becomes president of the “Japan Architects Association” | 2003 died