INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER / OBO SAKUHINSHU COMPETITION - Lot 127

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER / OBO SAKUHINSHU COMPETITION / KOKURITSU KOKUSAI KAIKAN SEKKEI KYOGI Sachio Ôtani, Yoshinobu Ashihara, Masato Ôtaka, Kiyonori Kikutake, Masayoshi Endô, Takeo Kobayashi, Kaneshige Sakanaga, Samon Sano, Fumihiko Maki, Nagakazu Mukôda, Hideo Yanagi, Junzô Yoshimura. Tokyo, Institute of Architecture of Japan under the direction of the Ministry of Construction, 1964, 303x227mm, 264p. numerous plans and photographs, minutes, list of candidates. Publisher's full gray cloth with title, cardboard slipcase. Best project: Sachio Ôtani. Projects of excellence: Yoshinobu Ashihara, Masato Ôtaka, Kiyonori Kikutake. Selected projects: Masayoshi Endô, Takeo Kobayashi, Kaneshige Sakanaga, Samon Sano, Fumihiko Maki, Nagakazu Mukôda, Hideo Yanagi, Junzô Yoshimura. Now known as the Kyoto International Conference Center, it is one of Ôtani's most representative works, still in existence and fulfilling its function to the full. Awarded the Building Contractors Society prize in 1967. Selected by "Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement in Japan (DOCOMOMO)" in 2003(103876)