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Sakakura, Junzo
(b Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, 29 May 1901; d Tokyo, 1 Sept 1969). Japanese architect. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1927 and in 1929 went to study at the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, Paris, where he received his diploma in 1931. He then worked as an apprentice and later an assistant in Le Corbusier’s studio in Paris until 1936. Shortly after leaving Le Corbusier, he made a dramatic start to his career by winning the Grand Prix with his design for the Japanese Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris (1937; destr.). The pavilion was a light, open, steel structure with glass, asbestos and slate tiles; it was a successful combination of Le Corbusier’s formal ideas and Japanese aesthetics, and it was an important illustration of the early International Style as interpreted by a Japanese architect. In 1939 Sakakura was a community planner in Manchuria and the continuing influence of Le Corbusier was revealed by his project for a new settlement there, which was almost a direct copy of the Ville Radieuse project of 1930. He then worked in private practice before establishing his own office in Tokyo (1947) and Osaka (1948).
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