Tetsuro Yoshida (吉田 鉄郎, Yoshida Tetsurō, May 18, 1894 - September 8, 1956) was a Japanese architect. He graduated from Tokyo University and entered the Ministry of Communications in 1919. He designed many Japanese post offices, telegraph offices, and related buildings in Japan.[1] He introduced Eastern architecture to the west, while incorporating Western architecture in his own designs, including architecture from Scandinavia, Germany, and the United States.[2]
Tetsurō Yoshida | |
|---|---|
 Yoshida in 1949 | |
| Born | 18 May 1894 |
| Died | 8 September 1956 Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
Major works
edit- Old Kyoto Central Telephone Office, 1926
- Tokyo Central Post Office, 1931
- Osaka Central Post Office, 1939
References
edit- ^ Steele, James (2017). Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tracing the Next Generation. Routledge. ISBN 9781317377283.
- ^ Kim, Hyon-Sob (2008). "Tetsuro Yoshida (1894-1956) and architectural interchange between East and West". Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly. 12 (1): 43–57. doi:10.1017/S1359135508000924.
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