The Setagaya Art Museum ( 世田谷美術館 , Setagaya Bijutsukan ) is an art museum in Yōga , Setagaya , Tokyo . The museum, which opened March 30, 1986, houses a permanent gallery and mounts seasonal exhibitions.
4-638: The main building of the museum, a contemporary design by architect Shōzō Uchii , is on a corner of Kinuta Park at 1-2 Kinutakōen, Setagaya, Tokyo. The gallery's permanent collection contains a great number of photographs, particularly by Kineo Kuwabara and (numbering in the hundreds) Kōji Morooka . An unusually large exhibition was "Love You Tokyo" ( ラヴ・ユー・トーキョー , Rabu Yū Tōkyō ) of 1993, which brought together 265 works by Kuwabara and 1479 by Nobuyoshi Araki . The Setagaya Art Museum maintains three annexes, all within Setagaya Ward. The Setagaya Art Museum
8-639: Is accessible from the Yōga Station on the Tōkyū Den'en-toshi Line . 35°37′54″N 139°37′19″E / 35.631589°N 139.621896°E / 35.631589; 139.621896 This article related to art or architecture in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a museum in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sh%C5%8Dz%C5%8D Uchii Shōzō Uchii ( 内井 昭蔵 , Uchii Shōzō )
12-587: The Kuon-ji Temple in Minobu , Yamanashi Prefecture . Uchii was born in Tokyo on the 20 February 1933. After graduating with both an undergraduate and master's degree from Waseda University in 1958, he started his architectural career in the offices of influential Metabolist pioneer Kiyonori Kikutake . Uchii started his own independent architectural practice, Shōzō Uchii Architect and Associates, in 1967. Uchii earned
16-688: Was a Japanese architect and academic authority on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright . Known for the design of landmark structures such as the Setagaya Art Museum , Oita City Museum of Art, and the Fukiage Palace , the residence on the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace for the Emperor of Japan. Uchii was awarded the R.S Reynolds Memorial Prize in 1980 for his design of the Treasury building of
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