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Wilhelm Böckmann

German architect

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influence on Japanese architecture

  • Hōryū Temple
    In Japanese architecture: The modern period

    …German architects Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann were active in Japan from the late 1880s. Their expertise in the construction of government ministry buildings was applied to the growing complex of such structures in the Kasumigaseki area of Tokyo. The now much-altered Ministry of Justice building (1895) is a major…

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