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Shirai, Seiichi
(b Kyoto, 5 Feb 1905; d Kyoto, 22 Nov 1983). Japanese architect. He studied philosophy and architectural history at the Karl Ruprecht University in Heidelberg and the Friedrich Humboldt University in Berlin (1928–31). He was a self-trained architect and worked very meticulously, often for several years on one project, paying great attention to even the smallest details. Although he designed buildings in the 1930s such as the Kawamura House (1936), Tokyo, the design that established his name was his famous unexecuted competition entry for the Atomic Bomb Memorial Building in Hiroshima (1955; see Hajime, p. 2).
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