Tange kenzo biography of rory

  • Kenzo Tange had been born on September 4 1913, the son of a bank manager, and at first grew up on the island of Shikoku, where Imabari is.
  • Kenzō Tange, born in 1913 in Osaka, Japan, first was drawn to architecture when he saw photographs of Le Corbusier's work in a magazine, and.
  • Born in 1956.

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    Yoshio Taniguchi (Tokyo, 17 October 1937 – 16 December 2024). Taniguchi’s maternal grandfather was one of Japan’s earliest architects and later became the head of the Tokyo branch of a major construction company. Taniguchi’s father, Yoshirō Taniguchi (1904–1979), was a contemporary of Kunio Maekawa and a respected architect in his own right.

    He studied engineering at Keio University, graduating in 1960, after which he studied architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1964. He worked briefly for architect Walter Gropius, who became an important influence.

    While at Harvard, Taniguchi met Kenzo Tange, and he joined Tange’s office and his Tokyo University research laboratory on his return to Japan in 1965, staying with the firm until 1972. He worked on projects in Skopje, Yugoslavia, and San Francisco, California (Yerba Buena), living on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley while involved in the latter project. Taniguchi taught architecture at the Universit

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    Architecture Classics

    AD Classics: Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center / Kenzo Tange

    “Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.”       - Kenzo Tange

    In honor of what would have been Kenzo Tange’s 100th birthday, AD Classics presents one of the Japanese master’s most iconic projects - the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center. Built in 1967, the building was the first spatial realization of Tange’s Metabolist ideas of organically-inspired structural growth, developed in the late 1950s. The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is far more significant than its relatively small size would suggest, encapsulating the concepts of  the new Metabolistic order in architecture and urban planning that prevailed in post-World War II Japan.

    More about this icon of Metabolism after the break….

    https://www.archdaily.com/422486/ad-classics-shizuoka-press-and-broadcasting

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    Calling all architects: It’s time to think big

    One of the biggest infrastructure projects today is the laying of transcontinental and transatlantic fibre-optic cables so that traders can sell shares more quickly. ‘A couple of milliseconds can roll out to a $20 million difference in a trader’s account at the end of the month,’ says Nigel Bayliff, chief executive of Huawei Marine Networks, one of the companies behind the project.

    As the PopSci website (strapline: the future is now) declares: ‘The New York-to-London line could be the company’s biggest draw, providing a competitive advantage of just five milliseconds – about the amount of time it takes a bee to flap its wings.’ Talk about priorities. But then if we leave the market to define how we live, this should come as no surprise. Not for nothing are its financial backers known as ‘The Masters of the Universe’.

    Implementing big ideas changes the shape of the world (if not the universe). The sewers of London, rural elect