Word: takao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the Emperor's new clothes. In an unprecedented action, Architect Yoshimura resigned. "Palace authorities have persistently ignored my conscience as an artist," he charged. The crux of the matter, it developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling. Finding a loophole in the architect's contract that limited him to a supervisory...