Tange Dies: Architect Who Rebuilt Japan's Identity
Kenzo Tange died at 91, leaving behind buildings that defined postwar Japan's architectural identity. His Yoyogi National Gymnasium for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics fused traditional Japanese aesthetics with brutalist concrete forms, and his Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum gave physical expression to the nation's reckoning with nuclear devastation.
March 22, 2005
21 years ago
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