Itsuko Hasegawa
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Itsuko Hasegawa 長谷川 逸子 (1941 - ) is a noted Japanese architect.
Hasegawa was born in Shizuoka, received her degree in architecture from Kanto Gakuin University (1964), trained with Kiyonori Kikutake until 1969, and then studied and worked at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1979 she formed her own design firm, Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, which has designed a number of award-winning buildings in Japan and abroad.
Hasegawa is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has received the Avon Arts Award, the Building Contractor's Society Prize for the Shonandai Cultural Center, the Cultural Award for Residential Architecture (Fukuoka, Japan), and a Design Prize from the Architectural Institute of Japan.
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[edit] Selected buildings
- Cardiff Bay Opera House; Japan Architect, 19, 68-71, Autumn 1995
- Himi Seaside Botanical Garden; Japan Architect, 19, 64-67, Autumn 1995
- Yamanashi Fruit Museum and Garden; Japan Architect, 19, 48-57, Autumn 1995
- Niigata City Performing Arts Centre; Japan Architect, 19, 44-47, Autumn 1995
- Shonandai Cultural Center
- Sumida Culture Factory, 1997
- Namekawa Housing, 1998
[edit] Selected writings
- Itsuko Hasegawa, Academy Editions, 1993. ISBN 1854902024.
- Itsuko Hasegawa, with Stephen Dobney, Images Pub. Group, 1997. ISBN 1875498559.
- Island Hopping - Crossover Architecture, NAi Publishers, 2000. ISBN 9056621866.
[edit] References
- Itsuko Hasegawa and Anne Sch-Eou, Itsuko Hasegawa: Recent Buildings and Projects, Birkhauser Verlag AG; Princeton Architectural Press, May 1997. ISBN 3764356057.
- Phoebe Chow, "Museum of Fruit", The Architectural Review, March, 1996, Volume CXCIX. No 1189.
- UIUC Women in Architecture
- International Archive of Women in Architecture
- archINFORM entry
