Hajime Yatsuka
Hajime Yatsuka is an architect and emeritus professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. His concern as a researcher and critic focuses on architecture and urbanism of 20th century Japan and the world. Among his book publications are: Le Corbusier- Urbanism as Biopolitics (Seidosha, 2013), Metabolism Nexus (Ohmsha, 2011), Shiso toshite no Nihon kindai kenchiku (Modern Japanese Architecture as Intellectual History) (Iwanami, 2005). His translated texts have been published in many journals in the US. and Europe. He is now working on the Constructivism of Soviet Russia, as found in politics, economy, art and urbanism.