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Kenzo Tange

1913–2005 · Japanese architect and planner · Japan

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Kenzō Tange visiting the construction site of his personal residence in Seijo, Tokyo.
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Bio

Connected modernist planning with Japanese spatial traditions and postwar reconstruction.

Key works

  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Government predecessor works

THE RETHINK

Kenzo Tange helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Kenzo Tange changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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