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Article: Kenzo Tange (1913-2005).(outrage)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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The influence of Kenzo Tange, who died on 22 March, aged 91 years, has permeated Japanese architecture for well over half a century. He became the leading Modernist architect in the country from the 1950s and taught generations of younger proteges in Tokyo University, MIT and Yale. But above all he led by built example, becoming in a sense the barometer of change in postwar Japanese modern architecture. He produced a vast number of projects throughout the islands and, as his international reputation grew, outside the country as well.
Tange graduated from Tokyo University in 1938 but resumed his postgraduate studies there during the war before beginning his ...