"Masatsune Matsumura"

2012 WMF / Knoll Modernism Prize winner

2012 WMF / Knoll Modernism Prize winner

Completed between 1956-1958, the cluster-style architecture of Hizuchi Elementary School represents a hybrid of modernism and traditionalism.

Modernist features such as the rational spatial design, use of dual facade windows, and a long glass exterior hallway that connected the entire school, are juxtaposed with the use of a traditional Japanese material: wood, in the construction

“Architecture is merely a container after all, and that is okay”

- Masatsune Matsumura (1960) -

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