Abstract

The 'former Koshien Hotel,’ completed in 1930, was designed by Arata Endo, who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on the design of the Imperial Hotel. It has been converted into the ‘Mukogawa Gakuin’ school facility and is presently called ‘Koshien Kaikan.’ It makes an expressive and profoundly meaningful impression even now and it is an excellent representation of the Japanese buildings of that time. In this study, the Endo philosophy on architectural beauty at that time, as explained and broken down into nine key points in ‘An essay on architectural art,’ was investigated and, through a survey of ‘Koshien Kaikan,’ it is apparent that Endo poured his philosophy on architectural beauty into the design of the 'former Koshien Hotel’ and embodied the nine key points into it from various points of view