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Kenzō Tange

1913 - 2005

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Kenzō Tange (丹下 健三, Tange Kenzō, 4 September 1913 – 22 March 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 Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. His career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, producing numerous distinctive buildings in Tokyo, other cities both in Japan and around the world, as well as ambitious physical plans for Tokyo and its environments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenzō Tange has received more than 472,490 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Kenzō Tange is the 41st most popular architect (up from 51st in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Japan (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Architect.

Kenzō Tange is most famous for his design of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kenzō Tange ranks 41 out of 518. Before him are Tadao Ando, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rem Koolhaas, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Hippodamus of Miletus, and I. M. Pei. After him are Callicrates, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Michelozzo, Vladimir Tatlin, Arne Jacobsen, and Ferdinand Cheval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Kenzō Tange ranks 22. Before him are Ramón Mercader, Paul Ricœur, Willis Lamb, Makarios III, Sabiha Gökçen, and Benjamin Britten. After him are Lon Nol, Roger Garaudy, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Paul Erdős, Silvio Piola, and Bảo Đại. Among people deceased in 2005, Kenzō Tange ranks 17. Before him are Hans Bethe, Paul Ricœur, Simon Wiesenthal, Rafic Hariri, Omar Sívori, and Ezer Weizman. After him are Zhao Ziyang, Zdzisław Beksiński, Jack Kilby, Joseph Rotblat, Aslan Maskhadov, and Sister Lúcia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenzō Tange ranks 68 out of 6,245. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Hideki Yukawa (1907). After him are Fumio Kishida (1957), Akira Toriyama (1955), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Shirō Ishii (1892), Date Masamune (1567), and Sonny Chiba (1939).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Kenzō Tange ranks 2. Before him are Tadao Ando (1941). After him are Arata Isozaki (1931), 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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