Kenzō Tange
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Tange.
Kenzo Tange | |
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 Kenzo Tange in 1981 | |
| Born | September 4, 1913 Osaka, Japan |
| Died | March 22, 2005 Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | The University of Tokyo |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | RIBA Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal, Order of Culture, Order of Sacred Treasure |
| Practice | 1946 Tange Laboratory 1961 The Urbanists and Architects Team Kenzo Tange Associates |
| Buildings | Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Plan for Skopje, Tokyo Olympic arenas, St Mary's Cathedral |
Kenzo Tange (丹下 健三, Tange Kenzō, September 4, 1913 – March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect and professor at the University of Tokyo. He was the 1987 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.[1]
Early life
[change | change source]Tange was born in Osaka. He grew up in the small city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in 1913.[1][2]
Tange studied film at Nihon University to avoid joining the military.
In 1935, he began studying architecture at the University of Tokyo. Hideto Kishida and Shozo Uchida were two of his teachers.[3]
Career
[change | change source]Tange won a contest to design the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Memorial Hall in 1942.
After the war, he became a professor at the University of Tokyo and taught such architects as Arata Isozaki, Koji Kamiya, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki and Sachio Otani.[1]
Tange was in charge of the rebuilding Hiroshima after World War II.[1] He designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
In 1959-60 Tange was a founding member of the architectural movement called Metabolism.
In 1987, Tange won the Pritzker Prize.[1]
Honors
[change | change source]- RIBA Gold Medal, UK
- AIA Gold Medal, US
- Order of Culture, Japan
- Order of Sacred Treasure, Japan
Gallery
[change | change source]-
Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka (1982) -
OUB Centre in Singapore (1986) -
UOB Plaza in Singapore (1992) -
Fuji Television Building in Odaiba, Tokyo (1996) -
Kagawa Prefectural Government Building main office (2000) -
The building of the National bank of Macedonia
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kenzo Tange, 1987 Laureate, Biography"; retrieved 2012-3-1. Archived version.
- ↑ "Obituary: Kenzo Tange". The Guardian. March 23, 2005.
- ↑ Stewart, Dennis B (2002). The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture: From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki. New York, United States: Kodansha International. ISBN 4-770-02933-0.