ITÔ Chûta

伊東忠太 (1867 – 1954)

Japan’s second-generation modern architect and architectural historian who strove to combine modern with traditional Japanese architecture | 1867 born in Yonezawa, Yamagata prefecture | 1889-92 studies under TATSUNO Kingo in the department of architecture at the “Imperial University” (today “University of Tôkyô”); Josiah Conder was still teaching there | 1895 recreates Heian shrine in Kyôto | 1901~ travels to China, Burma, India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Europe and the United States | 1905 becomes professor of architecture at Imperial University | 1928 professor at the “Waseda University” | 1943 becomes the first architect to be awarded the Japaneses “Order of Culture” (bunka-kunshō) | 1954 died