This is to survey the design of hydraulic power stations, built successively on the Kiso River in 1920s and 1930s, designed by an architect Shiro Sato. It must be very meaningful for the study of modern architecture, especially of industrial architecture, to survey the development of design for a series of these buildings which were designed for same function, in same region and by same architect. The design of the stations, reflecting the modern movement in Europe, varied from the Neo-Gothic style of Momoyama to Sezessionist's and German Expressionalist's of Yomikaki, Ohi etc., and finally to the International style of Nezame. But his last station Imawatari, designed almost same time to Nezame, has some of Neo-Gothic style, revealing the unique modernization process of Japan.
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