Yukio futagawa biography

Acclaimed Japanese architectural photographer and founder of Global Architecture (GA) magazine Yukio Futagawa died of cancer on March 5, 2013, at the age of 80.

Futagawa spent his 60-year career as a photographer, editor, and publisher, depicting and interpreting the architecture and culture of Japan, as well as the architecture of leading designers from other countries.

He worked with many renowned architects and historians, including Christian Norberg-Schultz, Philip Johnson, and Kenneth Frampton.

Futagawa published many books of photos expressing the beauty he found in traditional Japanese architecture.

He felt these buildings were rooted in the landscape and expressed the wisdom of the builders, who were not architects, and that their beauty came from everyday life. His influential publications include The Roots of Japanese Architecture (1962), Forms in Japan (1963), and Folk Arts in Okinawa (1964).

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