WATANABE Yôji

渡邊洋治 (1923 – 1983)

WATANABE Yôji – Japanese Architect & Buildings | Hartmut Pohling

Japanese architect who was called the architect of madness and heresy. He was famous for his drawings of competition proposals, which were done with black magic pens and blackened backgrounds | 1923 born in Jôetsu City, Niigata prefecture | 1941 graduates at “Takada College of Technology”, works for a steel company | 1947 joins architectural firm KUME SEKKEI | 1959 graduates from second study at “Waseda University”; founds his own architectural office | 1970 completes the “New Sky Building No. 3”, which is reminiscent of the capsule architecture of KUROKAWA Kishô | 1983 died