Kenzo Tange 1913-
Japonnais
Kenzo Tange was born in
1913 in Osaka and lived in Imabari, Ehime prefecture until junior high school.
After graduating from the University of Tokyo's Department of Architecture,
he worked for four years in the office of Kunio Maekawa, an important disciple
of Le Corbusier. In 1942 he entered the University of Tokyo Graduate School
and became an assistant professor from 1946. He established the Tange Laboratory
where young associates such as ...
Sachio Otani, Takashi Asada, Taneo Oki, Fumihiko Maki, Koji Kamiya, Arata
Isozaki, and Kisho Kurokawa exchanged fruitful ideas. Teaching and actively
exchanging ideas with people all over the world, Tange has instilled a vital
force in Japan and abroad. His relationship with many scholars and artists
has inspired his creative work throughout a career that spans half a century.
From the '70's into the early '80's, Tange's work flourished in cities in
over 20 nations around the world. Representative of this era are the design
of the OUB Center (1985) and UOB Plaza (1995), which with a height of 280
m defined a new skyline in Singapore. Around 1985, by the request of Mayor
Chirac of Paris (currently President), Tange made a proposal for the master
plan for the reorganization of Place
d'Italie, a plaza of about 200 m in diameter (1991) south of the
Seine, interconnecting the city of Paris from east to west. It restored order
between the old and the new plaza and enlivened the eastern part of the city.
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