Von Jour Caux (梵寿綱 Bon Jukō) is the pseudonym of Toshiro Tanaka (田中 俊郎 Tanaka Toshirō) (born 27 January 1934), a Japanese architect, artist, and thinker. He has been referred to as the Japanese Gaudi.[1]
Von was born in Asakusa, Tokyo. He studied architecture at the Waseda University[1] and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[2]
In 1958 Von commenced work as an orthodox architect, but in 1971 abandoned conventional architectural practice, and in 1974 formed a troupe of artists and craftsmen called Art Complex.[1] Their practice is the revival of "arts and crafts" in architectural space, such as the use of ornaments, symbolic icons and style, as the "Art Complex Movement".