Kenzo Tange

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architect human university professor urban planner

Kenzo Tange was a pioneering Japanese architect and urban planner known for blending modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics and for designing landmark projects such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.

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Label	Occurrences
Kenzo Tange canonical	37
Kenzō Tange	5
Kenzo Tange buildings	2
丹下健三	2
Kenzo Tange (involved in design concepts)	1
Kenzo Tange Associates	1
Tange Kenzo	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architect ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ urban planner ⓘ
awardReceived	AIA Gold Medal ⓘ Order of Culture ⓘ surface form: Order of Culture (Japan) Order of the Sacred Treasure ⓘ Pritzker Architecture Prize ⓘ Royal Gold Medal ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Japan ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1913-09-04 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2005-03-22 ⓘ
designed	Fuji Television Building ⓘ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ⓘ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park ⓘ Kagawa Prefectural Government Office ⓘ St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo ⓘ Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building ⓘ Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center ⓘ Yoyogi National Gymnasium ⓘ master plan for Skopje reconstruction ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Tokyo ⓘ
employer	University of Tokyo ⓘ
familyName	Tange ⓘ
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ urban planning ⓘ
founded	Kenzo Tange self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kenzo Tange Associates
givenName	Kenzo ⓘ
influenced	Fumihiko Maki ⓘ Kisho Kurokawa ⓘ Metabolist architects ⓘ
influencedBy	Le Corbusier ⓘ traditional Japanese architecture ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	natural causes ⓘ
movement	Metabolism (architecture) ⓘ Modernism ⓘ
name	Kenzo Tange self-link ⓘ
nationality	Japanese ⓘ
nativeName	Kenzo Tange self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 丹下健三
notableFor	blending modernist architecture with traditional Japanese aesthetics ⓘ pioneering postwar Japanese architecture ⓘ
notableWork	Fuji Television Building ⓘ Fukuoka Dome (master plan involvement) ⓘ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ⓘ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park ⓘ Kagawa Prefectural Government Office ⓘ St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo ⓘ Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building ⓘ Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center ⓘ Yoyogi National Gymnasium ⓘ
occupation	architect ⓘ university teacher ⓘ urban planner ⓘ
participantIn	planning for 1964 Tokyo Olympics ⓘ postwar reconstruction of Hiroshima ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Osaka ⓘ surface form: Osaka, Japan
placeOfDeath	Tokyo ⓘ surface form: Tokyo, Japan
positionHeld	professor at University of Tokyo ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center → architect → Kenzo Tange ⓘ

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Supreme Court Building, Islamabad → architect → Kenzo Tange ⓘ

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World Design Conference 1960 → participant → Kenzo Tange ⓘ

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center → architect → Kenzo Tange ⓘ

Lumbini Master Plan → designedBy → Kenzo Tange ⓘ