YOSHIZAKA Takamasa

吉阪隆正 (1917 – 1980)

Japanese architect and famous mountaineer | 1917 born in Tôkyô | 1921-23 lives in Geneva, Switzerland | 1941 graduates from “Waseda University” | 1950-52 goes to France as first postwar French government-sponsored student, works for LE CORBUSIER | 1957 plans the National Museum of Western Art for LE CORBUSIER, with MAEKAWA Kunio and SAKAKURA Junzô; organizes the “Waseda University Equatorial Trans-Africa Expedition”; achieved the “10,000km across Africa” | 1959 professor for architecture at Waseda University | 1960 expedition to Alaska and McKinley; serves as director of the “Japan Alpine Club” | 1964 opens his office “Atelier U” | 1969 dean of the “Faculty of Science and Engineering” at Waseda University | 1973 president of the “Architectural Institute of Japan” | 1980 died