Kenzo Tange
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Kenzo Tange 🇯🇵

丹下 健三
["Architect", "Urban Planner", "Pritzker Laureate"]
Born Sep 04, 1913 🇯🇵 Sakai (Osaka), Japan
Passed Away Mar 22, 2005 Tokyo, Japan
Lifespan 91 years old
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"Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart, but even then, basic forms, spaces and appearances must be logical."

Archival Overview

Titan of 20th-century architecture who rebuilt Hiroshima with the Peace Memorial Park, designed the iconic sweeping suspension roofs of the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, and won the 1987 Pritzker Prize.

Biographical Record

Kenzo Tange (1913–2005) studied architecture at the University of Tokyo, inspired by Le Corbusier. In 1949, he won the international competition to design the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, creating a sacred concrete cenotaph framing the Atomic Bomb Dome.

For the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Tange designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, featuring breathtaking sweeping suspension catenary cable roofs that became an international structural marvel. A mentor to Kisho Kurokawa and Arata Isozaki, Tange led the Metabolist movement.

Key Life Milestones

1955

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Completed the monumental modernist peace sanctuary and cenotaph commemorating atomic bomb victims.

1964

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Engineered the iconic suspension-roof Olympic arena praised worldwide as a pinnacle of structural design.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Aoyama Cemetery
Tokyo, Japan
GPS: 35.6663, 139.7241
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