Naha civic hall built in 1970 is a renowned modernism architecture as one of important works that express the regionalism design in postwar Okinawa that has a characteristic background of modern advanced concrete construction technology introduced by the US military till 1972 when Okinawa has been reversed to Japan. The paper has a focus on the significance and the process of the draft of the design competition that contributed greatly to the development of the regionalism architecture since then. Naha city office organized a committee to draft the competition accompanied by the encouragement of the quest for the new modernism that reflects the Okinawan identity and a genuine fair design competition.
