Date and time Saturday, February 6 13:30-16:30

Visit Nagoya City Municipal Government Museum, Former Toyota Sasuke House, Nagoya Ceramics Hall, etc.

On February 6, a tour entitled "Looking around Modern Architecture in Nagoya" was held. This is a project to look around the modern architecture that remains around the Shirakabe area. Lecturers are Kazumitsu Sakai of the Osaka Museum of History and Kan Murayama, who is in charge of the Tajimi City Mosaic Tile Museum. Mr. Sakai explained his position as a modern architecture, and Mr. Murayama further explained the tiles that are often used in exterior and interior decoration.

First of all, we toured the Nagoya City Hall completed in 1933 and the Aichi Prefectural Government Building completed in 1938 from outside. All are steel-framed reinforced concrete, with tiles attached to the exterior. While the city hall uses high-quality tiles to the interior, it is amazing that the prefectural government building was built at the time when material control began.

Next is the Nagoya Municipal Government Museum. This building was built in 1922 as a court building. This is mainly made of bricks and reinforced concrete, and small-sized makeup bricks are attached to the exterior. The interior also had various expressions such as stained glass and pillars with marble patterns in plaster. It is also known as a pioneering example of the preservation of modern architecture in Nagoya.

Next is the former Toyoda Sasuke's House and the former Haruta Tejiro's House. All of them were built in the end of the Taisho era. The exterior of the former Toyota House Western-style building is covered with white tiles, and if you look closely, you can see that a covered joint is used. On the other hand, the former Haruta House is a valuable building designed by architect Goichi Takeda.

Next, I visited the museum. It is the residence of the ceramics trader Tamezaburo Imoto, built from the end of the Taisho era to the early Showa era, and uses plenty of high-quality tiles such as kitchens and Western-style sunrooms.

The last is the Nagoya Ceramics Hall, completed in 1932. The exterior walls are thick scratch tiles of glaze, creating a rich atmosphere along with expressive appearance.

The interior is also impressive, with the tiles that are finely stretched on the floor and stairs waist wall, especially the pentagonal "diamond" arranged neatly on the entrance floor is valuable.

　In addition to Nagoya, there are many pottery production areas such as Tokoname, Seto, Mino, and modern architecture in Nagoya is very rich in tiles. It was a luxurious tour where you could compare various expressions and expressions of buildings from the end of the Taisho era to the early Showa era in one day.

　Many of the facilities we visited this time are open to the public. In conjunction with the "Challenge of Modern Architecture Monozukuri" exhibition, please take a look at the valuable modern architecture that remains in the city.