Kenzō Tange

was a Japanese architect and professor at the University of Tokyo.  He was the 1987 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize."Kenzo Tange, 1987 Laureate, Biography"; retrieved 2012-3-1. Archived version.

Early life
Tange was born in Osaka. He grew up in the small city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in 1913.

Tange studied film at Nihon University to avoid joining the military.

In 1935, he began studying architecture at the University of Tokyo. Hideto Kishida and Shozo Uchida were two of his teachers.

Career
Tange won a contest to design the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Memorial Hall in 1942.

After the war, he became a professor at the University of Tokyo and taught such architects as Arata Isozaki, Koji Kamiya, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki and  Sachio Otani.

Tange was in charge of the rebuilding Hiroshima after World War II.   He designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

In 1959-60 Tange was a founding member of the architectural movement called Metabolism.

In 1987, Tange won the Pritzker Prize.

Honors
 RIBA Gold Medal, UK
 AIA Gold Medal, US
 Legion of Honour, France
 Order of Culture, Japan
 Order of Sacred Treasure, Japan

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Category:1913 births
Category:2005 deaths
Category:Japanese architects
Category:Pritzker Architecture Prize winners
Category:People from Osaka
Category:People from Ehime Prefecture