Masako Hayashi
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{{Nihongo|Masako Hayashi|林 雅子|Hayashi Masako|1928-2001}} was a Japanese architect. She was the first woman to win the Architectural Institute of Japan Award.
Career
Hayashi primarily designed residential housing for limited space environments, using innovative building materials, space utilization and clean design.{{cite web|url=http://www.arvha.asso.fr/archi_fem/arvha_french/info_arvha/document_info/us-archi.html|title=Women in Architecture|work=India|publisher=ARVHA|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326015010/http://www.arvha.asso.fr/archi_fem/arvha_french/info_arvha/document_info/us-archi.html|archivedate=26 March 2012|accessdate=5 February 2012}} In 1958, Hayashi co-founded the Hayashi, Yamada, Nakahara Architectural Design Coterie with Hatsue Yamada and Nobuko Nakahara.{{cite web |title=An Interview with Nobuko Nakahara and Hatsue Yamada |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10919/5607 |website=International Archive of Women in Architecture |publisher=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |accessdate=18 September 2020 |date=Fall 2007|hdl=10919/5607 }}
She was the first woman to win the Architectural Institute of Japan Award.
Personal life
Notable awards
- American Institute of Architects Honorary Fellowship
- Architectural Institute of Japan Award
Notable works
- Umi no gyararī (Gallery of the Sea), Tosashimizu, Kōchi, Japan{{cite book|author=Simon Richmond|title=The Rough Guide to Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHiOgr2fPdQC&pg=PA630|accessdate=5 February 2012|date=1 February 2011|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-4053-8245-8|page=630}}[https://www.city.tosashimizu.kochi.jp/kanko/g01_uminogallery.html Umi no gyararī] at the website of Tosashimizu, retrieved 10 June 2019.
Further reading
;Works by Masako Hayashi
- House design in today's Japan. Tokyo: Shokokusha, 1969.
- with Kiyoshi Kawasaki. Modern Architects's Collected Works 22 Masako Hayashi, Kiyoshi Kawasaki. Japan: San-Ichi Shobo, 1975.
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