1994 Volume 59 Issue 465 Pages 163-173
Renshichiro Kawakita's early two music hall projects, "Draft of REIGAKUDO" (1924) and "REIGAKUDO" (1926), were thought out the plan with the inspiration from the musical aesthetics by Kosaku Yamada, one of the pioneers of Japanese composers. One explanation for "Draft of REIGAKUDO" may be that it was designed as a Utopia for learning the modern Western art, in the sense that there were no institution like that in that time, in spite of Kawakita's great longing. In addition to that "REIGAKUDO" has the similar quality to "Draft of REIGAKUDO", one of the notable features is architectural space aesthetics as art against the idea that the architecture is a practical business was dominant over all in those days. It follows from what has been said that "REIGAKUDO" is characterized as Utopia, too. Designing the architecture as a Utopia in Kawakita's activities, lead to the attitude reforming the social environment and aestheticism, on the other hand.
