Kenzō Tange

In this Japanese name, the family name is Tange.

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Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange 1981.jpg
Kenzo Tange in 1981
Personal information
Name Kenzo Tange
Nationality Japanese
Birth date September 4, 1913
Birth place Osaka, Japan
Date of death March 22, 2005
Place of death Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater The University of Tokyo
Work
Buildings Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Plan for Skopje, Tokyo Olympic arenas, St Mary's Cathedral
Awards RIBA Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal, Order of Culture, Order of Sacred Treasure

Early life

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

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

Gallery

Kenzō Tange Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kenzo Tange, 1987 Laureate, Biography"; retrieved 2012-3-1. Archived version.
  2. Obituary: Kenzo Tange. March 23, 2005. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/23/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1. 
  3. 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.