Tetsuro Yoshida

Architect. Born in Fukuno Town, Toyama Prefecture (now Nanto City). After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Tokyo Imperial University in 1919 (Taisho 8), he joined the Ministry of Communications and was responsible for the design of many post offices, telephone offices and other facilities related to the Ministry. He is best known for the Tokyo Central Post Office (1932) and the Osaka Central Post Office (1939). After retiring from the ministry in 1944 (Showa 19), he became a professor at Nihon University in 1946. In addition to his design work, after traveling abroad from 1956 to 1957, he wrote many books in German and English to introduce Japanese architecture to the world. One of these, Japanische Architectur (1952), won him the Architectural Institute of Japan Award. He made a great contribution to the modernization of Japanese architecture from a functionalist perspective, but he spent his later years recuperating due to poor health.

[Amada Yoshio]

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建築家。富山県福野町（現、南砺(なんと)市）に生まれる。1919年（大正8）東京帝国大学建築学科卒業後、逓信(ていしん)省に入り、多くの郵便局、電話局など逓信省関係の設計を担当。東京中央郵便局（1932）、大阪中央郵便局（1939）が著名。44年（昭和19）退官後、46年日本大学教授となる。設計活動のほか、31～32年の外遊後、日本建築を海外に紹介するためドイツ語や英語の著書を多数著す。その一つ『Japanische Architectur』（1952）で、日本建築学会賞を受賞。機能主義的立場から日本建築の近代化に対して大きな貢献をしたが、晩年は病弱のため療養生活が続いた。

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