POLICY, PRODUCTION, AND PLANNING OF CONCRETE BLOCK BUILDINGS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING IN NAGANO PREFECTURE, POSTWAR JAPAN

This study focuses on Nagano Prefecture, which actively adopted concrete block (CB) buildings for initial public housing, to understand the historical background of the construction of CB public housing. For this purpose, we analyzed Nagano Prefecture’s housing policy until the mid-1950s and the architectural characteristics of CB public housing. As a result, we found that the housing policy that promoted the CB building was adopted in Nagano Prefecture as a unique regional policy to conserve forest resources and that such regional characteristics were reflected in the planning rather than in the technical aspects of the housing.