Study on Japanese Art Museums since the Second World War: Graphic analysis and typology

After The Second World War, Japan has built many public facilities, including art museums. To nowadays, museum buildings have been characterized for having freer shape due to the program exhibition requirements, so architects are encourage testing how far they can push the limits of their abilities in architectural design. In this investigation, art museums are taken as an effective sample of architectonical design processes of the last 65 years. First, through the analysis of the architectural elements' cases and compositions, a typology classification had been made. This study tries not only to identify some of the elements and characteristics of the Contemporary Japanese Architecture, but also to establish the relationships between the formal composition and the interior organization that define them. The goal is to establish a classification of Japanese Contemporary Museum, describing the characteristics of the new types that have emerged over the past years.