Gyoji Banshoya (1930-1998): a Japanese planner devoted to historic cities in the Middle East and North Africa

Gyoji Banshoya (1930-1998) was a Japanese urban planner whose life-work was urban planning in the Middle East and North Africa. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of his work, which still remains unknown. His early masterpiece, the 'Square House', shows how he was influenc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Planning perspectives Jg. 31; H. 3; S. 391 - 423
1. Verfasser: Matsubara, Kosuke
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Routledge 02.07.2016
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Aleppo
ATBAT
Beirut
CIAM
Damascus
Gyoji Banshoya
History
Humanities and Social Sciences
Michel Ecochard
Damascus
ATBAT
Aleppo
Beirut
Gyoji Banshoya
Michel Ecochard
CIAM
ISSN:0266-5433, 1466-4518
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Zusammenfassung:Gyoji Banshoya (1930-1998) was a Japanese urban planner whose life-work was urban planning in the Middle East and North Africa. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of his work, which still remains unknown. His early masterpiece, the 'Square House', shows how he was influenced by Kiyoshi Seike to apply historic spatial composition to realize width and convertibility in low-cost housing. Following this, Banshoya studied under the supervision of Gerald Hanning and George Candilis at Ateliers de Bâtisseurs in Paris, and went to Algiers to engage in the study of 'evolutionary habitat'. As a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) expert, he began working with Michel Ecochard in 1962 in Beirut, Damascus, and Aleppo. They were responsible for the elaboration of master plans for these three cities, and that of Damascus still remains as a legally active master plan today. Coupled with the Syrian political struggle since the 1980s, there has been some reaction against their modernist policies. However, the case is made for a detailed examination of Banshoya's work, and re-evaluation of its legacy for the urban planning history of the Middle East and North Africa.
ISSN:0266-5433
1466-4518
DOI:10.1080/02665433.2015.1073610