Tange Kenzo
丹下 健三
1913 | September 4 born in Imabari, Shikoku Island | |
1935 | started studying at The University of Tokyo, Architecture Department | |
1938 | graduated from The University of Tokyo | |
1938-41 | worked for Mayekawa Kunio | |
1942-45 | completed doctor course at The University of Tokyo, Graduate School | |
1946 | became an assistant professor at The University of Tokyo, his students include Maki Fumihiko, Kamiya Kohi, Isozaki Arata, Kurokawa Kisho, Oki Taneo, Hara Hiroshi | |
1959-60 | Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
1961 | established Kenzo Tange + Urtec, urbanists and architects, Tokyo | |
1963-74 | Professor of urban engineering at The University of Tokyo, students include Taniguchi Yoshio | |
1972 |
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2005 | March 22 died in Tokio |
office
Kenzo Tange + Urtec, urbanists and architects
7-2-21 Akasaka, Minato ward, Tokyo, Japan
former employees
project list
1996 | FCG BUIDLING - FUJI TELEBI, Minato ward, Tokyo |
1994 | SHINJUKU PARK TOWER, PARK HYATT HOTEL, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo |
1992 | UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY HEADQUARTERS, Shibuya ward, Tokyo |
1991 | THE TOKYO CITY HALL COMPLEX, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo |
1989 |
YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Yokohama city, Kanagawa |
1982 | HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY, Himeji city, Hyogo |
1982 | AKASAKA PRINCE HOTEL, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo |
1978 | HANAE MORI BUILDING, Minato ward, Tokyo |
1977 |
King's Palace and the Crown Prince's Palace, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Sogetsu Hall and Office, Tokyo Headquaters Building, Tokyo Turkish Embassy and Chancery, Tokyo |
1976 |
Yarmouk University, Amman, Jordan (with Jafar Tukan and Partners) Bab-Ezzouar III University City, Algeria Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, Oran, Algeria King Faisal Foundation Headquarters Complex, Saudi Arabia Japanese Embassy, Mexico City (with Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Manuel Rosen) |
1975 |
New Presidential Palace, Damascus, Syria (with Mohammad Nofal) Imperial Iranian Embassy, Tokyo |
1974 |
Sacred Garden of the Buddha's Birthplace, Lumbini, Nepal Farah Park Hotel, Tehran (with Mir-Djalali and Detail Consulting Company) Bulgarian Embassy and Chancery, Tokyo Minneapolis Arts Complex (with Parker Klein Associates) |
1973 |
Andalouses Tourist Complex, Oran, Algeria Hokusetsu New Town Center, Hyogo |
1972 |
Inner Harbor Residential Development, Baltimore (with Cochran, Stephenson and Donkervoet, and Parker Klein Associates) |
1971 |
University, hospital, and dormitory, Oran, Algeria |
1970 |
Press and Broadcasting Center, Shizuoka Master plan for Morioka city, Iwate Olivetti Technical Center, Kanagawa Master plan, trunk facilities, and Festival Plaza, Expo '70, Osaka Kuwait Embassy and Chancery, Tokyo |
1969 |
International Air Terminal Building, Kuwait New Central Station, Skopje, Yugoslavia |
1968 | International School of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo |
1967 |
SHIZUOKA PRESS AND BROADCASTING CENTER, Chuo ward, Tokyo University of the Sacred Heart, Taipei, Taiwan Press and Broadcasting Center, Yamanashi |
1966 |
City Center Reconstruction Project, Skopje, Yugoslavia |
1964 |
Prefectural Gymnasium, Kagawa
SAINT MARY'S CATHEDRAL, Bunkyo ward, Tokyo Tsukiji Redevelopment Plan, Tokyo Ichinomiya Housing Project, Kagawa |
1962 | Nichinan Cultural Center, Miyazaki |
1961 | Totsuka Country Club House, Kanagawa |
1960 | Kurashiki City Hall, Okayama |
1958 |
Imabari City Hall, Ehime Prefectural Government Offices, Kagawa |
1957 | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices |
1955 | HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Naka ward, Hiroshima |
1953 | Kenso Tange House, Tokyo |
1952 | CENOTAPH FOR THE A-BOMB VICTIMS, Naka ward, Hiroshima |
1947 | Master plan for Hiroshima |
1996
FCG BUIDLING (Fuji-Sankei Communication Group) - FUJI TELEBI
address: | 2-4-8 Daiba, Minato ward, Tokyo |
maps: | [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 141,825 m² |
sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo, Part 2] page 163 |
1994.05
SHINJUKU PARK TOWER, PARK HYATT HOTEL
address: | 3-7-20 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都新宿区西新宿3-7-20 |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 264,456 m² |
sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 77 |
1992.07
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY HEADQUARTERS
address: | 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都渋谷区神宮前5-53-70 |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 21,301 m² |
sources: |
[Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 21 [Tajima Noriyuki: Tokio] pages 172-173 |
1991.03
THE TOKYO CITY HALL COMPLEX
address: | 2-8-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都新宿区西新宿2-8-1 |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 380,502 m² |
sources: |
[Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 75 [Tajima Noriyuki: Tokio] pages 220-225 [Agematsu, Yuji: Japanese Architecture Today; in: Gatti, Franco: Rethinking Japan - Literature, visual arts & linguistics] page 45 |
1989
YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART
横浜美術館 - Yokohama Bijutsu-kan
address: | 3-4 Minato-Mirai, Nishi ward, Yokohama city, Kanagawa |
total floor area: |
26,830 m² |
sources: |
[Tajima Noriyuki: Tokio] pages 266-267 |
1982
HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY
兵庫県立歴史博物館
address: | 68 Hon-machi, Himeji city, Hyogo |
Japanese: | 兵庫県姫路市本町68 |
address: |
68 Hon-machi, Himeji city, Hyogo |
total floor area: | 7,465 m² |
sources: |
[Architectural Map of Osaka / Kobe] page 312 |
1982.10
AKASAKA PRINCE HOTEL
address: | 1-2 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都千代田区紀尾井町1-2 |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 69,948 m² |
sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 55 |
Demolished.
1978
HANAE MORI BUILDING
address: | 3-6-1 Kita-Aoyama, Minato ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都港区北青山3-6-1 |
maps: | [Google] |
Demolished 2010.
1967.10
SHIZUOKA PRESS AND BROADCASTING CENTER
静岡新聞・静岡放送東京支社 - Shizuoka Shinbun, Shizuoka Hōsō Tōkyō Shisha
address: | 8-3-7 Ginza, Chuo ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都中央区銀座8-3-7 |
lat, long: | 35°40'07.40N 139°45'32.10E |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 1,493 m² |
sources: |
[Shinkenchiku] 1968/2, pages 185-191 [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 110 [Watanabe, Hiroshi: The Architecture of Tokyo] E47: page 134 |
1967.06
DENTSU HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
address: | 1-11-1 Tsukiji, Chuo ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: |
東京都中央区築地1-11-1 |
maps: | [Google] |
sources: |
[Watanabe, Hiroshi: The Architecture of Tokyo] E46: page 134 |
1967.02
YUKARI NURSERY SCHOOL, YUKARI CULTURAL KINDERGARTEN
address: | 7-15-14 Kinuta, Setagaya ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: | 東京都世田谷区砧7-15-14 |
maps: | [Google] |
total floor area: | 1,050 m² |
sources: |
[Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 244 [Watanabe Hiroshi: The Architecture of Tokyo] E43: page 133 |
1964.12
SAINT MARY'S CATHEDRAL
address: | 3-16-5 Sekiguchi, Bunkyo ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: | 東京都文京区関口3-16-5 |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 3,650 m² |
sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 141 |
1964.09
NATIONAL GYMNASIUMS FOR TOKYO OLYMPICS
address: | 2-1-1 Jinnan, Shibuya ward, Tokyo |
Japanese: | 東京都渋谷区神南2-1-1 |
lat, long: | 35°40'03.30N 139°42'00.70E |
maps: | [Google] [Yahoo] |
total floor area: | 38,650 m² |
sources: | [Architectural Map of Tokyo] page 36 |
1955
HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM
広島平和記念館
address: | 1-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka ward, Hiroshima city, Hiroshima |
total floor area: | 1,615 m² |
sources: | [www.arch-hiroshima.net/arch-hiroshima/arch/delta_center/p-museum_e.html] |
1952
CENOTAPH FOR THE A-BOMB VICTIMS
address: | Nakajima-cho, Naka ward, Hiroshima city, Hiroshima |
sources: | [www.arch-hiroshima.net/arch-hiroshima/arch/delta_center/ireihi_e.html] |
publications by Tange Kenzo
Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture,
Tokyo and New Haven, Connecticut; 1960, 1972
K. Tange
A Plan for Tokyo,
1960
K. Tange with Kenzo Tange Team
Ise: Origin of Japanese Architecture,
Tokyo; 1962, Cambridge, MA; 1965
K. Tange, N. Kawazoe
Japan in the Future,
Tokyo;, 1966
K. Tange
Japan in the 21st Century,
Tokyo; 1971
K. Tange with Kenzo Tange Team
Architecture and Urban Design,
Tokyo; 1975
K. Tange
'Creation in Present-Day Architecture and the Japanese Architectural Tradition',
in: The Japan Architect (Tokyo), June 1956
K. Tange
'Architecture and Urbanism',
in: The Japan Architect (Tokyo), October 1960
K. Tange
'Eero Saarinen'
in: A+U: extra edition, April 4/1984
K. Tange, R. Venturi, C. Pelli, G. Birkerts, S. Okada, P. A. Kennon, K. Kikutake,
K. Roche, K. Hayakawa, N. Hozumi, S. Kimura, H. Misawa, K. Misu,
M. Miyawaki, E. Musha, T. Nakamura, M. Shiina, S. Takahashi, M.
Takeyama, S. Tokuoka, H. Yamada, T. Yamashita, A. J. H. Lumsden
pages 1–240
publications on Tange Kenzo
「全身での身の任せきり 丹下健三の日本」 - Zenshin de no mi no makasekiri - Tange Kenzō no Nihon
'Kenzo Tange's Japan'
in: Shinkenchiku, 2005/07
pages 91-100
further readings
www.archi-channel.com/modern-architecture-in-nippon/stmarys-cathedraltokyo/
http://architect.architecture.sk/.../kenzo-tange-architect.php
http://www.answers.com/topic/kenzo-tange
http://eng.archinform.net/arch/13.htm
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