KENZO TANGE
Biography
Tange was born in Sakai, Osaka in 1913. He moved to Hankou, Shanghai of China and later England, with his banker father, backed to Japan in 1920. Tange was strongry influenced by Le Corbusier' books, and thought to be an architect in his secondary school days.
In 1935, Tange attended at the Department of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, where he studied architecture, completed his degree and worked as a professional architect at the studio of kunio Maekawa. Tange worked a few years there and left, backed to the University of Tokyo to study postgraduate course in 1941. Tange became an assistant professor and opened Tange laboratory in 1946, promoted to professor of the Department of Urban Engineering in 1963. As a professor, Tange supervised many of his students include Sachio Otani, Kisho Kurokawa, Arata Isozaki, and Fumihiko Maki who have inherited Tange's architectural style and his philosophy.
In 1949, Tange won the architecture competiton for design of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima city, following its atomic bombing in 1945. His design for Peace Memorial Park owes much to Le Corbusier, and is often called "the spiritual core of the city"[citation needed]. One reason Tange gave for applying for the job was that as a secondary student he had studied in the city.
Tange won international fame for his design for the gymnasium for the 1964 Summer OlympicsTokyo. His Pritzker Prize citation described it as "among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century". held in
He was also known for his "Tokyo Plan" of 1960, which proposed a radical redesign of the city. Although not fully implemented, it influenced architects worldwide. Tange received AIA Gold MedalOrder of Culture in 1980, the order of the Sacred Treasures in 1994. in 1966, the
In 2005, his funeral was held in one of his works, Tokyo Cathedral.
Source : Wikipedia
Label: Architect
