Professor Yoshinobu Ashihara, also known as Yoshinobu Ashihara, is one of architecture maestro. Ashihara wrote several masterpieces such as “The Aesthetic Townscape” (winner of the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award), and “The Hidden Order:Tokyo Through the Twentieth Century” of those became the main literatures in . Ashihara was professor at Hosei University, Musashino Art University, and University of Tokyo and served as president of the Japan Institute of Architects and also of the Architectural Institute of Japan.

Ashihara also received awards for some of the project, such as Komazawa Olympic Gymnasium, the Sony Building, the Japan Pavilion at the Montreal Expo, the National Museum of Japanese History, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. Yoshinobu Ashihara was born in Tokyo, 1918. He graduated from the University of Tokyo and received his master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University, doctoral degree from University of Tokyo. Ashihara became Honorary Professor from University of Tokyo. He died in 2003. Source © ar-chi-tect.org edited from . mitpress.mit.edu http://www.ashihara.jp, and related literatures.