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Yamashita, Kazumasa
(b Tokyo, 10 Feb 1937). Japanese architect. He graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1959. He worked for Nikken Sekkei Ltd in Tokyo from 1959 to 1964, for various architectural offices including Paul Schneider-Esleben in Düsseldorf (1964) and the Greater London Council (1965), and again for Nikken Sekkei Ltd from 1966 to 1969, when he opened his own office in Tokyo. Yamashita belonged to a group of more orthodox and pragmatic architects that emerged after the Metabolist movement ended. His buildings are professionally executed in an abstract, modernist manner but he also produced ‘Pop’ designs such as the Face House (1973), Kyoto, and the police box (1982) at a busy intersection in the Ginza, Tokyo. Other works include the Kitamura House (1968) in Kawasaki; the Hirano Clinic (1973), a five-storey dental clinic in Kanagawa Prefecture; the ‘From 1st’ building (1975), a five-storey retail and commercial complex in Tokyo designed around an inner court, which provided an informal urban environment on a human scale and was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan prize in 1976; and the Kubo House (1980) in Tokyo.
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