Gyo Obata is a significant American architect, the son of renowned painter Chiura Obata. Obata was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his family's Japanese heritage, he was nearly interned with other Japanese-Americans during World War II, but avoided it while earning a bachelor of architecture degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He then studied under the great Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. After short periods in the U.S.

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  • Gyo Obata is a significant American architect, the son of renowned painter Chiura Obata. Obata was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his family's Japanese heritage, he was nearly interned with other Japanese-Americans during World War II, but avoided it while earning a bachelor of architecture degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He then studied under the great Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. After short periods in the U.S. Army and working as an architect in Chicago, Obata returned to St. Louis in 1951. Four years later, he helped establish the St. Louis-based architecture firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. Due in part to Obata's prowess and growing reputation, the firm achieved global renown, and Obata himself has won numerous awards for his designs. In 1992 Obata was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. In 2008 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the St. Louis Arts and Education Council. Obata was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1969.
  • Gyo Obata é um arquitecto dos Estados Unidos da América. É filho do pintor Chiura Obata. Devido aos antepassados japoneses, esteve para ser internado com outros nipo-americanos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas como estudava arquitectura em St. Louis livrou-se do internamento. Estudou com Eero Saarinen na Cranbrook Academy of Art no Michigan. Obata regressou a St. Louis em 1951. Quatro anos depois ajudou a fundar a firma Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. É detentor de numerosos prémios de arquitectura.
  • Gyo Obata este un important arhitect american, fiul cunoscutului pictor Chiura Obata. Obata s-a născut şi a crescut în oraşul californian San Francisco. Provenind dintr-o familie cu tradiţii artistice, Gyo s-a orientat spre pictură, design şi ulterior spre arhitectură, absolvind Washington University din oraşul Saint Louis, Missouri, unde familia sa, de origine japoneză, se refugiase în anii celui de-al doilea război mondial, din cauza persecuţiilor suferite de japonezii americani după atacul de la Pearl Harbor din 6 - 7 decembrie 1941. După absolvirea Washington University, cu o diplomă de bachelor în arhitectură, Gyo Obata a studiat ulterior cu arhitectul Eero Saarinen la cunoscuta Cranbrook Academy of Art din suburbia oraşului Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, statul american Michigan. După o scurtă perioadă în U.S. Army, respectiv lucrând ca arhitect în Chicago, Ilinois, Obata s-a reîntors la Saint Louis, Missouri, Missouri în 1951. Patru ani mai tărziu, a fost parte fondatoare a firmei de arhitectură Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. Datorată şi lui Obata. firma a dobândit un renume şi o reputaţie globală, iar Obata însuşi a cucerit numeroase premii pentru lucrările sale. În 1992, Gyo Obata a fost onorat cu prezenţa în muzeul Saint Louis Walk of Fame.
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  • Gyo Obata is a significant American architect, the son of renowned painter Chiura Obata. Obata was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his family's Japanese heritage, he was nearly interned with other Japanese-Americans during World War II, but avoided it while earning a bachelor of architecture degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He then studied under the great Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. After short periods in the U.S.
  • Gyo Obata é um arquitecto dos Estados Unidos da América. É filho do pintor Chiura Obata. Devido aos antepassados japoneses, esteve para ser internado com outros nipo-americanos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas como estudava arquitectura em St. Louis livrou-se do internamento. Estudou com Eero Saarinen na Cranbrook Academy of Art no Michigan. Obata regressou a St. Louis em 1951. Quatro anos depois ajudou a fundar a firma Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum.
  • Gyo Obata este un important arhitect american, fiul cunoscutului pictor Chiura Obata. Obata s-a născut şi a crescut în oraşul californian San Francisco.
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