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Reiko Hayama (architect)

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Reiko Hayama (Japanese: 早間玲子, romanized: Hayama Reiko; November 9, 1933 – January 20, 2025) was a Japanese architect. She became the first architect from Japan to work in France.

Biography

Reiko Hayama was born in Tokyo in 1933.[1] She attended Yokohama National University from 1952 to 1958.[2]

From 1959 to 1965, she worked for Kunio Maekawa, who had collaborated with the Swiss French architect Le Corbusier.[2][3]

Hayama left Japan in 1966 and moved to Paris thanks to a Franco-Japanese collaboration scholarship issued by the French government.[2] She became the first Japanese architect authorized by the French state to work in France.[4][5]

In France, she spent three years collaborating with Charlotte Perriand, then spent 1969–1976 working with Jean Prouvé.[2][3] The latter encouraged her to add a French degree to her Japanese credential, which she obtained.[3]

In 1975, Hayama was named a member of the French Order of Architects [fr].[2] From 1976 to 2013, she ran her own architecture studio, Hayama & Associates.[2][3] She often designed factories and offices for Japanese companies operating in France.[4]

France named her a knight of both the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Legion of Honour.[5] In 2011, she was named 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette, in the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.[4]

Hayama died in Paris in 2025 at age 91.[1][5]

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