Takamasa Yoshizaka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Takamasa Yoshizaka

Japanese architect

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1917

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1980

Profession: architect

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Takamasa Yoshizaka (?? ??, Yoshizaka Takamasa, February 13, 1917—December 17, 1980), family name also romanized as Yosizaka, was a Japanese architect and former president of the Architectural Institute of Japan and a keen mountaineer. After graduating from university, he worked at Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris for two years working on projects in France and India.
After his return to Japan, he collaborated on Le Corbusier's National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo in 1959.
He set up his own practice called Atelier U in 1964. He proposed a theory of Discontinuous Unity and translated many of Le Corbusier's works from French into Japanese.