4 December 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
How Gyo Obata Found Shelter from Internment
In the spring of 1942, HOK co-counder Gyo Obata left Berkeley, California, where he had been a promising young student in Cal’s School of Architecture, and boarded a train east. The next day, his family was taken by bus to an internment camp. Nineteen-year-old Gyo avoided a similar fate by coming to St. Louis to study architecture at Washington University. This week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Kavita Kumar wrote a fascinating story about Gyo and three other Japanese-Americans who found shelter at Washington University. There’s also a video interview with Gyo.
(photo and video by Huy Richard Mach, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Take a look at Gyo’s yearboook photo at Washington University.
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