Hiroshi Hara, an important Japanese architect and educator who influenced the countrys design syndicate through highly elaborate buildings and theoretical contributions to academia, has died in Japan at the age of 88 according to local outlets.He will be remembered for the remarkable Umeda Sky Building, Sapporo Dome, and Kyoto Station, which count among the best-known contributions in his native country. In 2005, he expanded abroad to inaugurate the Casa Experimentada in Argentina. Among other things, his work embodied postmodernisms yearning to reify what he called "homogeneous space," tells the scholar Mikio Wakabayashi.The Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, Image: Kakidai/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)Archinector Will Galloway commented: "If you go to Kyoto you will experience his architecture in the Kyoto train station, one of the most amazing buildings in Japan from the 1990s. He was also the teacher of Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto at the University of Tokyo and had a very la...