{{Short description|Japanese architect}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Nihongo|'''Masako Hayashi'''|林 雅子|Hayashi Masako|1928-2001}} was a Japanese architect. She was the first woman to win the Architectural Institute of Japan Award.
==Career== Hayashi primarily designed residential housing for limited space environments, using innovative building materials, space utilization and clean design.<ref name="FemaleArch">{{cite web|url=http://www.arvha.asso.fr/archi_fem/arvha_french/info_arvha/document_info/us-archi.html|title=Women in Architecture|work=India|publisher=ARVHA|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326015010/http://www.arvha.asso.fr/archi_fem/arvha_french/info_arvha/document_info/us-archi.html|archivedate=26 March 2012|accessdate=5 February 2012}}</ref> In 1958, Hayashi co-founded the Hayashi, Yamada, Nakahara Architectural Design Coterie with Hatsue Yamada and Nobuko Nakahara.<ref name="VPI">{{cite web |title=An Interview with Nobuko Nakahara and Hatsue Yamada |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10919/5607 |website=International Archive of Women in Architecture |publisher=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |accessdate=18 September 2020 |date=Fall 2007|hdl=10919/5607 }}</ref>
She was the first woman to win the Architectural Institute of Japan Award.<ref name="FemaleArch"/>
==Personal life== She was married to architect Shoji Hayashi.<ref name="Hayashi">{{cite web | author=Takeshi Nakasa | year= | title=Takeshi Nakasa with leading figures #2 | publisher=Nacasa & Partners Inc. | url=http://www.nacasa.co.jp/e/column/column04.html | accessdate=5 February 2012 | archive-date=3 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803092556/http://www.nacasa.co.jp/e/column/column04.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Notable awards== *American Institute of Architects Honorary Fellowship<ref name="FemaleArch"/> *Architectural Institute of Japan Award<ref name="FemaleArch"/>
==Notable works== *Umi no gyararī (Gallery of the Sea), Tosashimizu, Kōchi, Japan<ref name="Richmond2011">{{cite book|author=Simon Richmond|title=The Rough Guide to Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHiOgr2fPdQC&pg=PA630|accessdate=5 February 2012|date=1 February 2011|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-4053-8245-8|page=630}}</ref><ref>[https://www.city.tosashimizu.kochi.jp/kanko/g01_uminogallery.html Umi no gyararī] at the website of Tosashimizu, retrieved 10 June 2019.</ref>
==Further reading== ;Works by Masako Hayashi *''House design in today's Japan''. Tokyo: Shokokusha, 1969. *with Kiyoshi Kawasaki. ''Modern Architects's Collected Works 22 Masako Hayashi, Kiyoshi Kawasaki''. Japan: San-Ichi Shobo, 1975.
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