Kenzo Tange and His High-Tech Masterpieces

Andie Wicaksono — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:22:35 +0000

Professor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction’s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1^st place in design competition), Summer Olympics stadium complex in Tokyo, which the design is like a stringray fish form (Pritzker Prize citation as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”), Tokyo Cathedral of Saint Mary, and Tokyo Master Plan, which concept to re designed the Tokyo city, OUB Center, OUB Plaza in Singapore, also master plan to re-designed the Plaza Place d’Italie, in France. Even though many of his buildings adjoined with a lot of steels and metals structures, as a structure maestro, Tange’s philosophy was always tried to create the relationship between human and technological elements. Kenzo Tange’s motto was he didn’t want to repeat what he has done.

After finished his graduate in architecture degree in department of engineering, University of Tokyo, Tange worked at the studio of kunio Maekawa. Tange was inspired by many of Le Corbusier’s style and concept of building designs. He attended post graduate at University of Tokyo 1941. Tange later became professor in 1963. Many of his pupils later became great architects also, like Sachio Otani, Kisho Kurokawa, Arata Isozaki, and Fumihiko Maki. Kenzo Tange received several achievements and architecture awards such as AIA Gold Medal in 1966, the Order of Culture in 1980, and the order of the Sacred Treasures in 1994. Article copyright © ar-chi-tect.org, edited from wiki, http://www.tangeweb.com and other related sources.

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