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In 1960 Architect Kenzo Tange violated the native tenets of compactness with his grandiose plan for an improved metropolis that would extend out over Tokyo Bay. Today, at 74, he is still pushing it. But now Tange, the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, is at the center...
Aida is one of the few middle-aged stars of Japanese architecture who neither apprenticed nor studied under Tange. He taught at Tokyo University when Maki and Kisho Kurokawa were Tange's students there in the '50s; Kurokawa and Isozaki worked in Tange's office in the late '50s and...
Tange, says Isozaki, "is of the generation all but dedicated to the job of translating Japanese tradition in terms of modern architecture, and introducing the result to the outside world." Tange's buildings of the '50s and '60s were in the then obligatory International Style but given bits of national...
Isozaki's postmodernism was not fueled, like that of many Western architects, by a hankering to reproduce a particular, seductive historical style. The forms and fragments in his work are not cute or ready-made. Instead, he is an antirationalist, a form-follows-intuition designer whose deft play (tricks of...
The Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium (1982) exemplifies the impeccable craft of his best work since then. Like much Japanese architecture of the past 25 years, it has a sci-fi quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet...