Kenzo Tange
An architect and planner who led postwar Japanese modernism and the discourse of Metabolism.
Born in Imabari and educated in Tokyo, Tange brought Japanese modernism to global attention through postwar reconstruction and international competitions.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum creates a place of memory through pilotis and an axis. Placement and emptiness matter more than applied ornament.
Yoyogi National Gymnasium is an Olympic facility whose suspended roof makes structure and silhouette inseparable.
Connected with Metabolist discourse and urban proposals, his generation explored the image of the growing city through architecture.
A Pritzker laureate, he is one of the central figures of postwar Asian modernism.
