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Arata Isozaki

1931 - 2022

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Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022) was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arata Isozaki has received more than 356,822 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Arata Isozaki is the 95th most popular architect (up from 96th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Japan (down from 155th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Architect.

Isozaki is most famous for designing the Miho Museum in Japan.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Arata Isozaki ranks 95 out of 518. Before him are Sostratus of Cnidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Mnesikles, and Minoru Yamasaki. After him are Joseph Maria Olbrich, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Amenhotep, son of Hapu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Arata Isozaki ranks 63. Before him are Viktor Korchnoi, Ettore Scola, Stanislav Grof, Sofia Gubaidulina, Syukuro Manabe, and Ivan Rebroff. After him are Richard F. Heck, Ike Turner, Rita Moreno, Jean-Claude Carrière, Hamilton O. Smith, and Ronald Dworkin. Among people deceased in 2022, Arata Isozaki ranks 53. Before him are Issey Miyake, Angelo Badalamenti, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Louise Fletcher, Meat Loaf, and Antonio Inoki. After him are Valeri Polyakov, James Lovelock, Hardy Krüger, Stanislav Shushkevich, Issei Sagawa, and Robert Curl.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Arata Isozaki ranks 176 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Suinin (-69), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Yasuo Fukuda (1936), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), and Masanobu Fukuoka (1913). After him are Yohji Yamamoto (1943), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Emperor Momozono (1741), Sanada Yukimura (1567), and Emperor Tenji (626).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Arata Isozaki ranks 3. Before him are Tadao Ando (1941), and Kenzō Tange (1913). After him are Fumihiko Maki (1928), Kisho Kurokawa (1934), Shigeru Ban (1957), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), Kengo Kuma (1954), Kunio Maekawa (1905), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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