Dojunkai Daikanyama Apartment
Architectutal Department, Construction Division, Dojunkai
- Outline
- Dojunkai was the first state-led housing agency in Japan, established after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and built a total of 15 RC apartments with full communal facilities (bathrooms, dining rooms, recreation rooms, etc.) in Tokyo and Yokohama. Daikanyama was the first example of a large-scale residential complex that spanned multiple city blocks, with streets planned to respond to the undulating topography and housing types created to accommodate them.
- Location
- Tokyo
- Journal
- Shinkenchiku 2025:08
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- Suburbs, Labors and Housing
- Category
- Housing and Dwelling Improvement
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- Postwar Housing
- Decade
- 1920s
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