yes, very true.
walking into his st marys cathedral in tokyo a few years ago had me convinced that his prtizker was more than deserved. tange knew how to curve a roof with fervor.
he was a great leader in helping japanese architects not only rebuild their cities but find their own culturally-appropriate formal expression after wwii. brilliant.
was he a metabolist at all? i've read contradictory things about all those japanese architects of the sixties.. who influenced who? and who was a metabolist? and what is metabolism all about? were the capsules of Kurosawa representatives of the Metabolism movement?
and RIP mr. Tange... I'd like to rescue some images of another masterwork, apart of the marvelous St Mary Church, the gimnasiums for the '64 Olympics, also in Tokyo..:
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Kenzo Tange
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yes, very true.
walking into his st marys cathedral in tokyo a few years ago had me convinced that his prtizker was more than deserved. tange knew how to curve a roof with fervor.
:( too...
hadn't checked the front page lately. bad news.
he was a great leader in helping japanese architects not only rebuild their cities but find their own culturally-appropriate formal expression after wwii. brilliant.
anyone know which came first?
Tange's Tokyo Saint Mary's or Nervi/Belluschi's San Francisco Saint Mary's?
i think tange's
mary in tokyo was completed in 1963.
mary in SF wasn't done until 1970.
but who knows.
was he a metabolist at all? i've read contradictory things about all those japanese architects of the sixties.. who influenced who? and who was a metabolist? and what is metabolism all about? were the capsules of Kurosawa representatives of the Metabolism movement?
and RIP mr. Tange... I'd like to rescue some images of another masterwork, apart of the marvelous St Mary Church, the gimnasiums for the '64 Olympics, also in Tokyo..:
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