Arata Isozaki, Japanese Architect

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

• 1971-1974: Gumma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in Takasaki City, Japan
• 1981-1986: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California
• 1989-1990: Team Disney Building in Orlando, Florida
• 1992: Sports Hall, Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain
• 1995: Kyoto Concert Hall, Japan
• 2005: Shenzhen Cultural Center, China
• 2013: Qatar National Library, Doha

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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