Architect and designer of notable buildings
Gyo was born in 1923. He was the son of Chiura 佐藤 and Haruko 小橋. After being sent to an internment camp in WWII, he avoided it by leaving the School of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, to study architecture at the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, the only university in the United States willing to accept Japanese nationals at that time and where he earned his bachelor of architecture degree. He received his master's degree in architecture and urban design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was an architect and he co-founded the global architectural firm HOK (formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum). He lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
He passed away in 2022. [1]
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