Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange
b. Osaka, Japan, 1913.
The leading and famous architect in Japan for a quarter-century after the Second World War. Tange studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1938, and worked for Kunio Maekawa (1938-41) before returning to his alma mater to study city planning in the graduate school (1942-5). He became assistant professor [...]