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    Kenzo Tange was a prominent Japanese architect born in 1913. He is known for combining Japanese architectural traditions with modernist styles. Some of his most notable works include the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which incorporated Japanese elements like sun screens alongside Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. He also designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, featuring sleek suspended roofs that evoke traditional Japanese shrine designs. Tange's works demonstrated how a unique regionalism could develop within the international style through a contemporary interpretation of Japanese forms.

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    Kenzo Tange was a prominent Japanese architect born in 1913. He is known for combining Japanese architectural traditions with modernist styles. Some of his most notable works include the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which incorporated Japanese elements like sun screens alongside Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. He also designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, featuring sleek suspended roofs that evoke traditional Japanese shrine designs. Tange's works demonstrated how a unique regionalism could develop within the international style through a contemporary interpretation of Japanese forms.

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    Kenzo Tange was a prominent Japanese architect born in 1913. He is known for combining Japanese architectural traditions with modernist styles. Some of his most notable works include the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which incorporated Japanese elements like sun screens alongside Le Corbusier's five points of architecture. He also designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, featuring sleek suspended roofs that evoke traditional Japanese shrine designs. Tange's works demonstrated how a unique regionalism could develop within the international style through a contemporary interpretation of Japanese forms.

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    KENZO TANGE

    Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

    Kenzo Tange's work marked a revived awareness of Japanese architectural


    traditions expressed through a contemporary interpretation of architectural form.
    Kenzo Tange demonstrated that a unique regionalism could be developed, and
    recognized, within the circumstance of the international style.

    LIFE
    Kenzo Tange was born in, 1913 in the port city of Imabari.
    Kenzo Tange's private practice began in 1949 with his successful submission to the open
    competition for the Hiroshima Peace Center.

    Corbusier was a major influence on him in his formative years.


    He designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo; which catapulted him to
    international fame and to the Pritzker Prize.

    PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM


    Although the design philosophy is purely Japanese, Tanges ideas aligned with modern
    architecture from the west in many ways simplicity, lightness, openness, modulated
    repetition and ingenuous construction with exposed materials.
    This is around the same time as Le Corbusier.

    Inevitably suggesting Le Corbusier influences, the museum is supported on pillars, like Le


    Corbusiers pilotis. Furthermore, the building is articulated with exposed reinforced
    concrete.

    Tange combined Le Corbusiers five points with elements drawing from Japanese
    traditions, such as the sun-screens and the modular arrangement of the facade.

    the parabolic shaped memorial sculpture in the garden resembles the Haniwa tombs of
    former rulers of Japan.

    Inside, the museum transports


    the visitor into the catastrophe

    of the blast.

    The exhibition ranges technical


    data about the bomb to dramatic
    testimonies of victims, all in
    theatrically prepared halls.

    YOYOGI NATIONAL GYMNASIUM, TOKYO


    Its aerodynamic, monumental and suggestive design became an icon of the Japanese capital

    The complex consists of 2 buildings

    The two gyms are placed in a landscaped platform. In fact, despite


    their monumental size, they give the impression that the roofs are
    born the park itself, emphasizing its relationship with the surrounding
    environment.

    The elegant roofs of the two gyms use a contemporary language and a similar structural
    logic: they are suspended by two large steel cables. Both axes are arranged in an eastwest, which is also the predominant direction of plot.

    The structural concept is based on a main spine that consists of two steel cables 13 "
    in diameter, anchored to two large slabs of concrete on either end of the building and
    to two structural towers. Cables describe a parabolic curve (technically, it is called
    catenary ) from which smaller wires are placed perpendicularly, to form a tent-like roof.

    Kenzo Tange takes advantage of the gap between the two curves to propose an
    imposing triangular access, which, despite having a monumental scale, seem to
    be born of the earth, giving the building a feeling of lightness.

    It is also important to note that the roof, although it used state-of-the-art technology at the
    time, still evokes elements of traditional Japanese architecture, particularly the roofs
    of Shinto shrines.

    ST. MARY CATHEDRAL / KENZO TANGE, TOKYO

    The Tokyo Cathedral has been completed in 1964, replacing the old wooden cathedral,
    in gothic style, burnt during wartime.

    The complex consists of a group of structures, among which are the cathedral and bell tower.

    The
    sculptural
    structure is
    wrapped in
    stainless
    steel.

    The cathedral is based, as many ancient Christian churches, in a cross layout.

    The plan layout is a diamond, which sides are joined to the vertices of the cross
    using 8 curves called hyperbolic paraboloids.

    The eight walls the elements which hold the whole structure are at the same time roof
    and walls, enclosing the space and opening to the outside through vertical gaps.

    These concrete walls provide a dramatic spectacle in their contact with light through the
    elongated windows on the sides of the cross

    SHIZUOKA PRESS AND BROADCASTING CENTER


    The narrow, triangular site inspired Tange to
    design a vertical structure, consisting of

    main infrastructural core,


    could

    develop

    urban megastructure,

    into

    which
    an

    into which an
    ever-growing number of prefabricated
    capsules could be plugged-in.

    RENEWAL OF TSUKIJI DISTRICT. KENZO TANGE, 1963

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