#kenzo tange

[matthiasheiderich]

Fiera District, Bologna / Italy. Designed by Kenzo Tange. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

[ofhouses]

1171. Kenzo Tange /// Outer Circle House /// Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1987-89

OfHouses presents: Japanese Fields OfHouses, part XI. (Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 04/1990.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: ’Japanese Fields | OfHouses.’

[obsessedbyneon]

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Kenzo Tange, construction began in 1988.

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[guy60660]

Kenzo Tange | Architecture lab

[conformi]

Isamu Noguchi, Piazza | Fiera District, Bologna, Italy, 1979 VS Mario Bellini, CMC7-7004, Olivetti, 1963

[dromik]

©️dromik

[nozkphotography]

Embassy of the State of Kuwait, Mita, Tokyo

January, 14th, 2024

[germanpostwarmodern]

Kenzo Tange (1913-2005) undoubtedly was Japan’s most important postwar architects by virtue of his built work but also because he left a mark on a range of young architects: as professor at Tokyo University Tange counted Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki and Kisho Kurokawa among his students, all of them important architects in their own rights. At the same time Tange cast his net wide and took part in the postwar CIAM congresses and subsequently also built in Europe and taught in the US.

To my knowledge the present volume still is the most comprehensive publication on the architect: „Kenzo Tange 1946-1996: Architecture and Urban Design“, jointly edited by Massimo Bettinotti and Tange and published by Electa in 1997. The book is a lavishly illustrated monograph highlighting Tange’s most important designs from five decades with each project accompanied by plans, drawings and insightful texts in English and Italian. What is particularly charming about the book is that it is half biography and half work catalogue: in the first part the architect takes the reader through his biography, his major projects and career events while the second and more comprehensive part is dedicated exclusively to his works. These are again subdivided into urban plannings and architecture and accompanied by explanatory texts, plans and extensive photo spreads.

Although the book by its very nature isn’t a critical evaluation of the architect’s work it nonetheless is a very good point of departure for a deeper discussion of Tange’s complete works.

[darquitectura]

Kenzo Tange , Gimnasio Kagawa,  Takamatsu, 1964

[davidhudson]

Kenzo Tange, September 4, 1913 – March 22, 2005.

[dare-g]

Books 31-40 of the year 📖

[matthiasheiderich]

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center, Tokyo. Architect: Kenzo Tange. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

[juliaknz]

KENZO TANGE KAGAWA PREFECTURAL GYMNASIUM, 1964 Kagawa, Japan Image © Noriyuki Kawanishi —set to be demolished, save it!

[shuunzen]

"In general, people think modern architecture in Japan starts with Tange in the post-war period. But I think it started in the pre-war period. I am very interested in Michizo Tachihara. He was a year senior to Kenzo Tange and they studied at the same university. He was well known in his teens for his poetry − which is as magnificent today as it was then − besides his genuine talent as an architect. He wrote a lot, for example about ruins and had similar ideas about architecture as Louis Kahn − and he also wrote about buildings without people. He was uniquely talented, but unfortunately died at the age of 24. He is one example of a pre-war modern architect, and of other interesting movements and people who are not as well known as the Metabolists became later." - Encounters and Positions: Architecture in Japan

[soillodge]

Kagawa Gymnasium. Scheduled for demolition.

Built between 61-64 by Pritzker Prize winner Kenzo Tenge.

[yama-bato]

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Kenzo Tange’s Katsura

Kenzo Tange is the co-author of Yasuhiro Ishimoto in “Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture”. “Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture” is also the title of Tange’s thesis placed at the beginning.

http://zeitgeist.jp/en/katsura-imperial-villa/

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