Antonín Reimann

Antonín Reimann ( Antonin Raymond ), born the May 10th 1888 with Kladno and dead the November 21st 1976 with New Hope in Pennsylvania, was a Czech Architecte which lived and worked with the the United States and with the Japan. Certain as the instigator of the Modern architecture in Japan regards it.

Its life

Reimann made its studies with the technical university of Prague until 1909. It left to the United States in 1910. As from 1916 he worked for Frank Lloyd Wright with Taliesin with Spring Green and one proposed to him to work on the project of the imperial Hôtel of Tōkyō. Reimann then decided to remain in Japan where it drew several buildings pioneer of the Modernism in Béton reinforced. During the Second world war, Reimann went back food to the United States where it created in 1945 an architectural firm to New York with an architect compatriot Ladislav Leland Rado (1909-1993), the agency Raymond & L.L. Rado . After 1948 Reimann travelled again to Japan where in fact it remained until 1973 before returning to live in the United States.
En 1956 Reimann accepted the Médaille of honor of AIA, l' American Institute off Architects , and, in 1964, a Ray of gold with ribbon of the Order of the rising sun of Japan.

Its work (nonexhaustive list)

Reinanzaka House with Tōkyō (1924)
Villa of embassade with Nikko (1929)
Troedsson Villa in Nikko (1931)
Club house of the golf of Tōkyō with Asaka (1932)
House of summer in Karuizawa (1933)
House Morinosuke Kawasaki in Tōkyō (1934)
House Tetsuma Akaboshi in Tōkyō (1934)
Its farm with New Hope (1939)
Its own house and its studios with Azabu (1951)
Offices of the Reader' S Digest in Tōkyō (1951)
Cunningham House in Tōkyō (1954)
Saint-Anselme Church in Tōkyō (1954)
Villa in Hayama with Hayama (1958)
New studio with Karuizawa (1962)
Saint-Paul Church in Shiki (1963)

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