44 Facts About Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture.

Kenzo Tange was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.

Kenzo Tange's career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, producing numerous distinctive buildings in Tokyo, other Japanese cities and cities around the world, as well as ambitious physical plans for Tokyo and its environs.

Kenzo Tange did not join the group of younger CIAM architects known as Team X, though his 1960 Tokyo Bay plan was influential for Team 10 in the 1960s, as well as the group that became Metabolism.

Kenzo Tange's ideas were explored in designs for Tokyo and Skopje.

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Kenzo Tange's work influenced a generation of architects across the world.

In contrast to the green lawns and red bricks in their Shanghai abode, the Kenzo Tange family took up residence in a thatched roof farmhouse in Imabari on the island of Shikoku.

Kenzo Tange spent two years doing so and during that time, he read extensively about western philosophy.

Kenzo Tange enrolled in the film division at Nihon University's art department to dodge Japan's drafting of young men to its military and seldom attended classes.

In 1935 Kenzo Tange began the tertiary studies he desired at University of Tokyo's architecture department.

Kenzo Tange's graduation project was a seventeen-hectare development set in Tokyo's Hibiya Park.

Kenzo Tange developed an interest in urban design, and referencing only the resources available in the university library, he embarked on a study of Greek and Roman marketplaces.

In 1942, Kenzo Tange entered a competition for the design of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Memorial Hall.

Kenzo Tange was awarded first prize for a design that would have been situated at the base of Mount Fuji; the hall he conceived was a fusion of Shinto shrine architecture and the plaza on Capitoline Hill in Rome.

In 1946, Kenzo Tange became an assistant professor at the university and opened Kenzo Tange Laboratory.

Kenzo Tange's students included Sachio Otani, Kisho Kurokawa, Arata Isozaki, Hajime Yatsuka and Fumihiko Maki.

Kenzo Tange was awarded first prize for a design that proposed a museum whose axis runs through the park, intersecting Peace Boulevard and the atomic bomb dome.

Kenzo Tange refined this concept to place the museum prominently at the centre, separate from the utility buildings .

Kenzo Tange designed the Cenotaph monument as an arch composed of two hyperbolic paraboloids, said to be based on traditional Japanese ceremonial tombs from the Kofun Period.

The columns on the elevation bore only vertical loads so Kenzo Tange was able to design them to be thin, maximising the surfaces for glazing.

Kenzo Tange began his designs in 1961 and the plans were approved by the Ministry of Education in January 1963.

In both cases Kenzo Tange took Western ideas and adapted them to meet Japanese requirements.

Kenzo Tange won a Pritzker Prize for the design; the citation described the gymnasium as "among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century".

The project was significant because of its international influence, however for Kenzo Tange it was model case for urban reconstruction to realise modern architecture principles.

Kenzo Tange assembled a group of twelve architects to design the infrastructure and facilities for the Expo.

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Kenzo Tange conceived that this plaza would connect the display spaces and create a setting for a "festival".

Kenzo Tange's first placing in the design competition for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park gained him recognition from Kunio Maekawa.

The elder architect invited Kenzo Tange to attend the Congres International d'Architecture Moderne .

Kenzo Tange presented various designs to Team X in their meetings.

When Kenzo Tange travelled back to Japan from the 1951 CIAM meeting, he visited Le Corbusier's nearly complete Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles, France.

Kenzo Tange looked at the sketches for the new capital of Punjab at Chandigarh, India.

Kenzo Tange had left the Team X Otterlo conference early to take up a tenure at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rather than building up a city from a civic centre, Kenzo Tange's proposal was based on civic axis, developing the city in a linear fashion.

In 1965 Kenzo Tange was asked by the United Nations to enter a limited competition for the redevelopment of Skopje, which was at that time a city of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Kenzo Tange's design furthered ideas put forward in the earlier "Tokyo Plan".

Kenzo Tange further developed his ideas for expandable urban forms in 1966 when he designed the Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Centre in Kofu.

Kenzo Tange promoted a very flat hierarchy in the practice: partners were equal in importance and were encouraged to participate in every project.

In 1985, at the behest of Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris at that time, Kenzo Tange proposed a master plan for a plaza at Place d'Italie that would interconnect the city along an east-west axis.

Kenzo Tange incorporated vertical and horizontal lines reminiscent of both timber boarding and the lines on semiconductor boards.

Kenzo Tange continued to practice until three years before his death in 2005.

Kenzo Tange disliked postmodernism in the 1980s and considered this style of architecture to be only "transitional architectural expressions".

Kenzo Tange's funeral was held in one of his works, the Tokyo Cathedral.

Reyner Banham, Kenzo Tange was a prime exemplar of the use of Brutalist architecture.

Kenzo Tange became the president of Kenzo Tange Associates in 1997 before founding Tange Associates in 2002.