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Yatsuka, Hajime
(b Yamagata, 10 Aug 1948). Japanese architect and critic. He was educated at the University of Tokyo, studying under Kenzo Tange and Sachio Otani. After graduating in 1975, he worked for Arata Isozaki from 1978 to 1983 and then established his own office in Tokyo (1984). At first he was both a designer and an architectural critic, contributing to numerous national and international journals and publications. In his architecture Yatsuka aims at an acceleration of modernism that is not only sharply critical of the reactionary, classicist and other historicist tendencies in international Post-modernism but also challenges modernist ideology and dogma. His ‘deconstructionist’ designs, loose assemblies of individual parts, which are influenced by contemporary French philosophy, occupy a position between Structuralism and Post-structuralism; they show affinity with the works of Rem Koolhaas (b 1944), Bernard Tschumi and Zaha Hadid (b 1950). His few completed projects include the acclaimed Angelo Tarlazzi Building (1987) in Tokyo, a ‘stage set’ of fragmented elements with indirect references to many avant-garde works such as the roof form of Le Corbusier’s Heidi Weber Pavilion (1966) in Zurich.
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