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Akira Kuryu-architect who designed many famous museums in Japan. Compared with his comtemporaries, Akira Kuryu started his career later than other famous Japanese architects. He graduated from Waseda University and once worked with Maki, a very famous architect, at Maki & Associates and then became an associte lecturer in Maki Research Department at Tokyo University. In 1987, he set up Akira Kuryu Architect & Associates. Since then, in such a short period, he has constantly worked out excellent projects, including a series of museum buildings, which are widely noticed by the public such as “Uemura Naomi memorial museum”(1994), “Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims”(2003)…He was awarded many prizes of great worth such as The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, Award of the Japan Art Academy, Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award. With these successful architectural designs, Akira Kuryu has gained a fairy high reputation in the field of architecture in Japan. File:Http://www.archi.ta.chiba-u.jp/img/faculty/kuryu.jpg

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 Akira Kuryu-architect who designed many famous museums in Japan.
+Compared with his comtemporaries, Akira Kuryu started his career later than other famous Japanese architects. He graduated from Waseda University and once worked with Maki, a very famous architect, at Maki & Associates and then became an associte lecturer in Maki Research Department at Tokyo University. In 1987, he set up Akira Kuryu Architect & Associates. Since then, in such a short period, he has constantly worked out excellent projects, including a series of museum buildings, which are widely noticed by the public such as “Uemura Naomi memorial museum”(1994), “Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims”(2003)…He was awarded many prizes of great worth such as The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, Award of the Japan Art Academy, Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award. With these successful architectural designs, Akira Kuryu    has gained a fairy high reputation in the field of architecture in Japan.
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