The Japanese architect Kenzo Tange (born 1913), a student of Le Corbusier, was one of the first modern architects in Japan and played an important design role in postwar rebuilding of Japanese cities. Kenzo Tange was born in 1913 in the town of Imabari...

(b. 1913), Japanese architect. Kenzo Tange was Japan's leading postwar architect and the first Japanese architect to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. Beginning in 1938, Tange spent four years in the office of Kunio Maekawa (1905–1986),...

Kenzo Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō; September 4, 1913 - March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional...

It is unlikely that any other architect better personified the enormous rebuilding effort in post-war Japan than Kenzo Tange, who has died aged 91. His work - which blended Corbusian Modernism with an instinctive sympathy for Japanese traditions - was perhaps best exemplified in...

Kenzo Tange, 91, Japan's leading architect in the postwar period, died Mar. 22 of heart failure. After graduating from architecture school in Tokyo, Tange worked for Kunio Maekawa, a major architect who had apprenticed to Le Corbusier. Tange and his own firm, in...

Kisho Kurokawa, the Japanese architect who led the so-called "Metabolism Movement" and based his designs on themes including ecology and recycling, died Friday, a Tokyo hospital spokeswoman said. He was 73.Kurokawa died of heart failure Friday morning, said Keiko Yamazaki, spokeswoman at the Tokyo Women's...