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Isozaki Arata: Astonishing by Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Edan Corkill
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If the entire Japanese architectural fraternity was one big royal family, then Isozaki Arata would be a king approaching the end of a long and glorious reign.

The "pedigree" of this majestically silver-maned 76-year-old is, quite simply, faultless.

Architecturally speaking, Isozaki's “father” was the great Tange Kenzo — best known for his 1950 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the National Gymnasium in Yoyogi built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Isozaki was taught by Tange at the prestigious University of Tokyo in the early 1960s — along with those other architectural luminaries, Kurokawa Kisho and Maki Fumihiko.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , June 2008 , e7
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