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Yoshida, Tetsuro
(b Toyama, May 1894; d Tokyo, 8 Sept 1956). Japanese architect. Upon graduating from Tokyo University (1919) he joined the Teishinsho (pre-war Ministry of Communications) and designed numerous post, telephone and telegraph offices. Using reinforced concrete he established a standardized design for the buildings of the Teishinsho, aiming to create a Rationalist architecture that was suited to the Japanese climate and environment. During the 1920s he designed buildings with a dominant motif of semicircular arches, which derived from Scandinavian architecture; their austere Rationalism was characterized by a surface of grids using structural pillars and span doors covered with white tiles. In 1931 Yoshida spent several months on an architectural study tour in Europe and the USA. At this time he was influenced by the Neo-classicist works of Auguste Perret, although German Rationalism also had an impact on his designs. Characteristic works by Yoshida include the Central Post Office (1931), Tokyo, (see JAPAN, fig. 39) and the Central Post Office (1936), Osaka. He was a friend of Bruno Taut, who was in Japan in the 1930s. After he became a professor at Nihon University (1946) he published a number of books, including Japanische Architektur (Tübingen, 1952), Das Japanische Wohnhaus (Tübingen, 1954) and Der Japanische Garten (Tübingen, 1957).
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