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*''Born: [[1852]]''
*''Died: 1920''
Josiah Conder was one of the most influential architects of the [[Meiji architecture|Meiji period]], designing the [[Rokumeikan]] ([[1883]]) and the original main hall of the [[Tokyo National Museum]], as well as instructing or training many of the most prominent Japanese architects of the period.
Conder was trained at the South Kensington School of Art, and worked or studied under architects T. Roger Smith (a distant uncle of his) and William Burges, before joining the Royal Institute of British Architecture.
He first arrived in Japan in [[1877]], and began teaching in the newly-founded architecture division of the Imperial College of Engineering (''[[Kobu gakko|Kôbu gakkô]]''). He remained there until [[1884]], his students including [[Katayama Tokuma|Katayama Tôkuma]], [[Tatsuno Kingo]], and [[Tsumaki Yorinaka]], each of whom would go on to design some of Tokyo's most famous buildings.
He completed the original two-story brick main hall of the Tokyo National Museum in [[1881]], along with a [[Hokkaido Products Hall|Hokkaidô Products Hall]] on the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]] in the same year.
==References==
*Dallas Finn, "Reassessing the Rokumeikan," in Ellen Conan (ed.), ''Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 227-239.
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*''Died: 1920''
Josiah Conder was one of the most influential architects of the [[Meiji architecture|Meiji period]], designing the [[Rokumeikan]] ([[1883]]) and the original main hall of the [[Tokyo National Museum]], as well as instructing or training many of the most prominent Japanese architects of the period.
Conder was trained at the South Kensington School of Art, and worked or studied under architects T. Roger Smith (a distant uncle of his) and William Burges, before joining the Royal Institute of British Architecture.
He first arrived in Japan in [[1877]], and began teaching in the newly-founded architecture division of the Imperial College of Engineering (''[[Kobu gakko|Kôbu gakkô]]''). He remained there until [[1884]], his students including [[Katayama Tokuma|Katayama Tôkuma]], [[Tatsuno Kingo]], and [[Tsumaki Yorinaka]], each of whom would go on to design some of Tokyo's most famous buildings.
He completed the original two-story brick main hall of the Tokyo National Museum in [[1881]], along with a [[Hokkaido Products Hall|Hokkaidô Products Hall]] on the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]] in the same year.
==References==
*Dallas Finn, "Reassessing the Rokumeikan," in Ellen Conan (ed.), ''Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 227-239.
<references/>
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]