Clubhouse

History

This clubhouse is one of the masterpieces of architect Taro Amano (1918 - 1990), who studied under American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) and taught at Kogakuin University and Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Throughout his career as an architect, Amano explored ways of building a comfortable relationship between nature and humans in architectural space.

A golf course is surrounded by a vast natural environment. In one of his notes while planning the design of the clubhouse, Amano stated: "How will the clubhouse blend in with the pine woods and green lawns, which suggests that he was thinking about a fusion of architecture and nature. Designed based on this idea, the clubhouse has a serene atmosphere with low horizontal lines blending in with the natural landscape and circular forms that are human friendly.

The work of designing the clubhouse offered Amano, who has studied under Wright the importance of considering design based on the principles of nature, an opportunity to put his ideas into practice. With exterior openings seemingly drawing in the surrounding landscape, the interior space of the clubhouse provides an open atmosphere that makes one feel as if one is in the midst of the natural environment. Amano must have thought it an ultimate luxury to have this clubhouse, a place for sports, entertainment and social interaction, in such a beautiful natural setting.
Mitsuru Hirai
First class Architect in Japan, Visiting Scholar In Kogakuin University, Secretary of DOCOMOMO japan
[Biography]
2009 Established Drawing Notes Architects
Completed PH.D program without a Ph.D.degree, Kogakuin University (Hatsuda Laboratory)
Executive committee for the ExeTaro Amano
2009-2011 Directed Archives of Organic Architecture Japan
2004-2011 Teached at Tokyo Tchnical College
2000-2006 Worked at Yoshiwara Architects
(formerly Amano Yoshiwara and Partners, Architects)
1974 Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan