Gyo Obata

Gyo Obata (born 1923) is a significant American architect.

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Obata was born and raised in San Francisco. Due to his family's Japanese heritage, he and they were nearly interned with other Japanese-Americans during World War II. Obata earned his bachelor of architecture degree at Washington University in St. Louis, then studied under the great Eero Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.

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After short periods in the U.S. Army and working as an architect in Chicago, Obata returned to St. Louis in 1951. Four years later, he helped establish the St. Louis-based architecture firm Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. Due in part to Obata's prowess and growing reputation, the firm achieved global renown, and Obata himself has won numerous awards for his designs.

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