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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 Japanese cities and cities 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 443,961 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Kenzō Tange is the 52nd most popular architect (up from 54th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 72nd 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 52 out of 424. Before him are François Mansart, Arne Jacobsen, Richard Rogers, Richard Meier, Michelozzo, and Carlo Maderno. After him are Isidore of Miletus, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Marcel Breuer, Giacomo della Porta, and Louis Le Vau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Kenzō Tange ranks 26. Before him are Makarios III, Lon Nol, Paul Erdős, Albert Ellis, Bảo Đại, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona. After him are Roger Garaudy, Jimmy Hoffa, Werner Mölders, Erich Priebke, Frances Farmer, and Silvio Piola. Among people deceased in 2005, Kenzō Tange ranks 19. Before him are Pat Morita, Zhao Ziyang, Saul Bellow, Aslan Maskhadov, Omar Sívori, and Rafic Hariri. After him are Zdzisław Beksiński, Hans Bethe, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Jack Kilby, James Callaghan, and Sister Lúcia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenzō Tange ranks 73 out of 6,048. Before him are Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Date Masamune (1567), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Fumio Kishida (1957), Sonny Chiba (1939), and Hideki Yukawa (1907). After him are Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Shirō Ishii (1892), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), and Nichiren (1222).

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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), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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