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Tominaga, Yuzuru
(b Taipei, 1943). Japanese architect. He studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1967, and then worked for Kiyonori Kikutake until 1972 when he established his own office, Form System, in Tokyo. Tominaga’s architecture is primarily residential and represents a move away from the technologically oriented Metabolist movement in Japan. In his designs he combines a modernist sensibility in his straightforward use of materials, structure, geometry and lack of unnecessary embellishment, with a concern to create spaces with a ritualistic quality, such as complex entry sequences, not complying with modernist functionalism or the optimization of use. The often undulating, white and shiny surfaces of his interiors, reminiscent of those in Hiroshi Hara’s ‘reflection houses’, are juxtaposed with uniquely articulated structural systems such as those that characterize the work of Kazuo Shinohara in the 1970s. The House for a Newlywed Couple (1979) in Odawara and his own house (1983) at Musashishinjo, Kawasaki, feature wooden columns with diagonal braces set within essentially void spaces. The creative use of cheap, readily available materials such as metal, plastic and formica is evident in all Tominaga’s works, including the Residence Hall (1985) in Waseda, Tokyo, and the Kofuen Nursing Home (1987), Kawasaki.
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