Trending Architects in Japan this year
The 100 most-viewed architects this year on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Isamu Noguchi.
100
Ranked
28,441
Total Views (this year)
1
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)
2,791
views
views
2
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
1,468
views
views
3
Gorō Miyazaki
Japanese anime director (born 1967)
1,130
views
views
4
Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect (1954-)
1,124
views
views
5
Antoni Gaudí
Catalan architect (1852–1926)
1,070
views
views
6
Kobori Enshū
daimyo
1,025
views
views
7
Tadao Ando
Japanese architect (born 1941)
820
views
views
8
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
804
views
views
9
Kenzō Tange
Japanese architect (1913–2005)
643
views
views
10
Kisho Kurokawa
Japanese architect (1934-2007)
597
views
views
11
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
559
views
views
12
Yoshiki Kuroda
Japanese architect
506
views
views
13
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
454
views
views
14
Kunio Maekawa
Japanese architect (1905–1986)
435
views
views
15
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
435
views
views
16
Josiah Conder
British architect (1852-1920)
392
views
views
17
Itō Chūta
architect (1867–1954)
391
views
views
18
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
372
views
views
19
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
360
views
views
20
Tatsuno Kingo
Japanese architect (1854–1919)
359
views
views
21
Mokichi Okada
Founder of the Church of World Messianity (1882-1955)
333
views
views
22
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
310
views
views
23
Hidari Jingorō
Japanese sculptor and painter (1584-1644)
303
views
views
24
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
300
views
views
25
Kiyohide Hayakawa
(1949-2018)
297
views
views
26
Arata Isozaki
Japanese architect (1931-2022)
293
views
views
27
Kazuyo Sejima
Japanese architect (1956-)
287
views
views
28
Yoshio Taniguchi
Japanese architect
282
views
views
29
Togo Murano
Japanese architect (1891–1984)
274
views
views
30
Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi
American architect (1880–1964)
273
views
views
31
Kunichi Nomura
Japanese magazine editor and designer (1973-)
261
views
views
32
Riken Yamamoto
Japanese architect (1945-)
256
views
views
33
Sou Fujimoto
Japanese architect (born 1971)
226
views
views
34
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
225
views
views
35
William Morris
British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
220
views
views
36
Toyo Ito
Japanese architect (born 1941)
214
views
views
37
Jack Nicklaus
American golfer (born 1940)
214
views
views
38
Norihiko Dan
Japanese architect
203
views
views
39
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
191
views
views
40
Kiyonori Kikutake
Japanese architect (1928-2011)
190
views
views
41
Hideyuki Hatakenaka
Japanese architect
189
views
views
42
Fumihiko Maki
Japanese architect (1928–2024)
188
views
views
43
Joan Fontaine
British actress (1917–2013)
185
views
views
44
Shigeru Ban
Japanese architect (1957-)
185
views
views
45
Antonin Raymond
Czech architect (1888–1976)
183
views
views
46
Bianca Censori
Australian architect and model
175
views
views
47
Hiroshi Hara
Japanese architect (1936–2025)
175
views
views
48
Shinobu Satouchi
Japanese voice actor and architect
171
views
views
49
Kentarō Yamazaki
Japanese architect
170
views
views
50
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
169
views
views
51
H. R. Giger
Swiss artist (1940–2014)
168
views
views
52
Masayuki Irie
Japanese architect (1946-)
163
views
views
53
Yasuyuki Kawanishi
Japanese designer and architect
162
views
views
54
El Greco
Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
162
views
views
55
Michizō Tachihara
Japanese poet (1914-1939)
161
views
views
56
Kyohei Sakaguchi
Japanese artist
157
views
views
57
Sachiaki Kobayashi
Japanese businessman
155
views
views
58
Egon Schiele
Austrian painter (1890-1918)
155
views
views
59
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
154
views
views
60
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
151
views
views
61
Terunobu Fujimori
Japanese architect and architectural historian
149
views
views
62
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)
147
views
views
63
Yoshikazu Uchida
Japanese architect (1885-1972)
142
views
views
64
Ryue Nishizawa
Japanese architect (1966-)
133
views
views
65
Tomoyuki Sakakida
Japanese architect
133
views
views
66
Minoru Yamasaki
American architect (1912–1986)
127
views
views
67
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter (1780–1867)
122
views
views
68
Zdzisław Beksiński
Polish artist (1929-2005)
121
views
views
69
Yoshirō Taniguchi
Japanese architect (1904-1979)
118
views
views
70
Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)
117
views
views
71
Junzō Yoshimura
Japanese architect (1908–1997)
112
views
views
72
Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
112
views
views
73
Tachū Naitō
Japanese architect and engineer (1886–1970)
110
views
views
74
Arnold Palmer
American golfer (1929–2016)
107
views
views
75
Junzo Sakakura
Japanese architect (1901-1969)
106
views
views
76
Imhotep
Egyptian polymath, later revered as a god
106
views
views
77
Satoko Shinohara
Japanese architect
102
views
views
78
Shunmyō Masuno
Japanese monk and garden designer
101
views
views
79
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
100
views
views
80
Bruno Taut
German architect (1880–1938)
99
views
views
81
John Singer Sargent
American painter (1856–1925)
99
views
views
82
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary (born 1944)
98
views
views
83
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
American actor
98
views
views
84
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
98
views
views
85
Yuko Nagayama
Japanese architect
97
views
views
86
Arata Endo
Japanese architect
96
views
views
87
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
93
views
views
88
Tokugawa Kotoko
Japanese architect
92
views
views
89
Mamoru Yamada
Japanese architect
91
views
views
90
Daedalus
son of Metion in Greek mythology
91
views
views
91
Katayama Tōkuma
Japanese architect
91
views
views
92
Hiroshi Naito
Japanese architect
89
views
views
93
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japanese film director (1927-2001)
88
views
views
94
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
87
views
views
95
Isaku Nishimura
Japanese architect and teacher (1884-1963)
87
views
views
96
Masayuki Kurokawa
Japanese architect and product designer (1937-)
85
views
views
97
Takenosuke Sakakura
Japanese architect
84
views
views
98
Oki Sato
Japanese designer (born 1977)
84
views
views
99
Goichi Takeda
Japanese architect
82
views
views
100
George Nakashima
Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker (1905-1990)
82
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