Architect Seminar Kenzo

Tange
Presented by Sreekanth P. S.

Nationality

Japanese

Born

4 September 1913 Osaka, Japan

Died

22 March 2005 Tokyo, Japan

Alma mater

The University of Tokyo

Practice

1946 Tange Laboratory

1961 The Urbanists and Architects
Team
Kenzo Tange Associates

Awards

Plitzker Prize, RIBA Gold Medal, AIA

Gold Medal, Order of Culture,
Order of Sacred Treasures

An influential protagonist of the Structuralist

movement.
He believed in combining traditional
Japanese styles withmodernism.
Influenced from an early age by the Swiss
modernist, Le Corbusier
Winner of the 1987 Pritzker
Prizeforarchitecture

Yoyogi National
Gymnasium(1964)

Formed in the late 1950s by a small group

of young Japanese architects and designers
Human society modelled in biological terms
Based on Buddhist notions of
impermanence and change.
Relied heavily on advanced technology, and
they often consist of adaptable plug-in
megastructures

Mega city planning for

Tokyo (Kenzo Tange
1960)
The most famous built
example of Metabolism is
Kurokawa's Nakagin
Capsule Tower (1972).

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

St. Mary's Cathedral

Hiroshima Peace
Monument

Fuji TV headquarters

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Computer Chip
Gothic Cathedral
Traditional Japanese
houses.

The exterior surfaces covered with

geometric pattern executed in granite
Earthquake resistant structure
Observation desk at the top
At the top of each tower are satellite
dishes pointing in all directions.

The smaller building housing

government offices is located to the
south of the main building.
The two structures are joined by the
multi-story portico .
The style of the south building is less
vertical and takes on the form of a
cluster of buildings.

Acts as an unifying element

The portico wraps gently around the
plaza, joining it to the main building as
well as the assembly hall.
Sculptures

The fan-shaped plaza, modeled on the

famous Campo in Siena,
Acts as a separation
Slopes gently up as one moves away from
the main structure.
An oasis of rare harmony and tranquillity

Campo in Siena

The assembly hall is a circular metalclad structure which looms over the
plaza from above the portico.
A round window placed at its center

First Floor Plan of super block

Second Floor Plan of super

Section of Super Block

Fusion of eastern and western elements

One based on structural principle other on
futuristic principle
Shift to Monumental Structures from his
minimalist ideologies

Kenzo Tange's attempt to embrace the

postmodernist movement of the eighties.
Deviation from his general idea of
Traditional Japanese Architecture
The perfect architectural incarnation of
modern Japan