Ishimoto-Tei Zufu [Illustrated Catalogue of Architect Ishimoto's Own House, Tokyo Gotanda] by Ishimoto, Kikuji

Tokyo: Kokusai Kenchiku Kyokai, 1939. Small quarto (25.5 x 19 cm). Original wrappers with metallic printing to front cover, unpaginated (20 pp). Some slight rubbing and toning to cover, minor area of loss to lower left corner of front cover near spine, overall very good condition. A small booklet illustrated with photographs of architect Kikuji Ishimoto's own home in Tokyo. Kikuji Ishimoto (1894-1963) was a Japanese rationalist architect. In 1920, he cofounded the Bunri-ha Kenchikukai (Secessionist Architecture Group) with Mamoru Yamada, Sutemi Horiguchi, Mayumi Takzawa, Keiichi Morita, and Shigeru Yada, Japan's first architectural movement. The group was inspired by the Viennese Secessionists. They held their first exhibition at the Shirokiya department store in Tokyo in July 1920, and were active through 1928. They first captured the attention of the public through pavilions and other structures that members designed for the 1922 Tokyo Peace Exposition.

In 1922, Ishimoto traveled to Europe and studied under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus before returning to Japan. By the early 1930s, he had opened his own studio, and also built the Amsterdam School-inspired headquarters of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo and the Constructivist-inspired Shiroyuki department store, the latter with Bunzo Yamaguchi. He went on to design many rationalist or International Style buildings in Japan, many in exposed concrete.

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