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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Making of Japanese Postwar Architecture
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Built EnvironmentArchitectural DesignJapanese HistoryEast Asian StudiesJapanese Postwar ArchitectureArchitectural EngineeringCultural HeritageJapan StudyMonumental HeritageVexed NaturePostwar JapanLanguage StudiesArchitectural HistoryJapanese NationalismSocial Sciences
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, designed by Japanese architect Kenzō Tange, is an eloquent visual account of the vexed nature of postwar Japan's contested history. It played an important role in the contentious debates over postwar internationalism and an emerging Japanese nationalism among Japanese architects and critics, and catalyzed the development of a new "non-Western" modern architecture.