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Arata Isozaki, Japanese Architect

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Born:


July 23, 1931 in Oita, Kyushu, Japan

Education:

  • 1954: University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering
  • Apprenticed with architect Kenzo Tange

Important Buildings:


Arata Isozaki is known for using bold, exaggerated forms and inventive detailing. His works include:

Styles and Ideas:


Arata Isozaki was inspired by the imaginative, Japanese New Wave movement known as Metabolism.

Arata Isozaki & Associates:


Address:
9-6--17 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Japan
Web Site:
Arata Isozaki & Associates

About Arata Isozaki :


Born and educated in Japan, Arata Isozaki often integrates Eastern ideas into his designs.

For example, Isozaki wanted to express a yin-yang theory of positive and negative space when he designed the Team Disney Building in Orlando, Florida. Also, because the offices were to be used by time-conscious executives, he wanted the architecture to make a statement about time.

Serving as offices for the Walt Disney Corporation, the Team Disney Building is a startling landmark on the otherwise barren stretch of Florida's Route I-4. The oddly looped gateway suggests gigantic Mickey Mouse ears. At the building's core, a 120-foot sphere forms the world's largest sundial. Inside the sphere is a serene Japanese rock garden.

Isozaki's Team Disney design won a prestigious National Honor Award from the AIA in 1992.

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