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Uchii, Shozo
(b Tokyo, 1933). Japanese architect. The eldest son of the architect Shin Uchii, in 1956 he graduated in architecture from Waseda University, Tokyo, where he also completed a graduate course in 1958. From 1958 to 1967 he worked for Kiyonori Kikutake. In 1967 he opened his own office in Tokyo; in his designs particular attention was paid to site, materials and building function. After 1980 he developed the view that industrial standardization and excessive personalization (tendencies of Post-modernism) are unhealthy directions for contemporary architecture. His idea of sound architecture is that it should embody the architect’s spiritual relationship with nature and craftsmanship. Such buildings as the Setagaya Museum (1986), Tokyo, reveal in their stylistic influences his admiration for the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Uchii won the Mainichi Art Award for this building; he also received prizes from the Architectural Institute of Japan for the Sakuradai Court Village (1970), Kanagawa, and from the Japan Architects Association for the Kawashima Textile School (1973), Kyoto.
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