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Arata Isozaki

{{short description|Japanese architect (1931–2022)}}

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| name = Arata Isozaki

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| caption = Isozaki in 2013

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| spouse = Aiko Miyawaki

| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|07|23|df=y}}{{cite web |last1=Goodwin |first1=Dario |title=Spotlight: Arata Isozaki |url=https://www.archdaily.com/529896/spotlight-arata-isozaki |website=ArchDaily |access-date=4 March 2019}}

| birth_place = Ōita, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|28|1931|07|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

| nationality = Japanese

| alma_mater = University of Tokyo (1954 and 1961)

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| significant_buildings = {{unbulleted list| Festival Plaza at EXPO70 | Art Tower Mitor | LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art }}

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| awards = {{unbulleted list| 1986 Royal Gold Medal | 2019 Pritzker Prize{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Katherine |title=Arata Isozaki Named 2019 Pritzker Prize Laureate |url=https://www.archdaily.com/912450/arata-isozaki-named-2019-pritzker-prize-laureate |website=ArchDaily |date=5 March 2019 |access-date=5 March 2019}}}}

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Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022){{Cite news |last=Giovannini |first=Joseph |date=29 December 2022 |title=Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/arts/design/arata-isozaki-dead.html |access-date=30 December 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/design/pritzker-prize-2019-arata-isozaki-architecture-design-japan-a8813646.html|title=The man who fused east and west: Arata Isozaki wins Pritzker Prize in architecture|last=Qin|first=Amy|date=9 March 2019|work=Independent|access-date=26 June 2019}} from Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University.{{Cite web |last=Yamaguchi |first=Mari |date=30 December 2022 |title=Isozaki, Pritzker-winning Japanese architect, dies at 91 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/isozaki-pritzker-winning-japanese-architect-dies-91-95970313 |access-date=30 December 2022 |website=ABC News |language=en}}

Biography

Isozaki was born in Oita on the island of Kyushu and grew up in the era of postwar Japan, the eldest of four children of Toji and Tetsu Isozaki. His father was a prominent businessmen. In 1945, he witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima on the shore opposite his hometown. When he accepted the Pritzker Prize in 2019 he stated: "There was no architecture, no buildings, and not even a city. So my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities."

Isozaki completed his schooling at the Oita Prefecture Oita Uenogaoka High School (erstwhile Oita Junior High School). In 1954, he graduated from the University of Tokyo majoring in Architecture and Engineering. He completed a doctoral program in architecture from the same university in 1961. Isozaki also worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his firm in 1963.

Isozaki's early projects were influenced by European experiences with a style mixed between "New Brutalism" and "Metabolist Architecture" (Oita Medical Hall, 1959–1960), according to Reyner Banham. His style continued to evolve with buildings such as the Fujimi Country Club (1973–74) and Kitakyushu Central Library (1973–74). Later he developed a more modernistic style with buildings such as the Art Tower of Mito (1986–90) and Domus-Casa del Hombre (1991–1995) in Galicia, Spain. In 1983, he supported an apparently unbuildable entry for a sports club in Hong Kong by the then-unknown architect Zaha Hadid. In 1985 he designed the interior of New York City's Palladium nightclub.{{Cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/912757/arata-isozakis-palladium-nighclub-through-the-lens-of-timothy-hursley|title=Arata Isozaki's Palladium Nightclub Through the Lens of Timothy Hursley|date=7 March 2019|website=ArchDaily}} The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, completed in 1986, was his second international project and his best known work in the U.S.

In 2005, Arata Isozaki founded the Italian branch of his office, Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates. Two major projects from this office are the Allianz Tower CityLife office tower, a redevelopment project in the former trade fair area in Milan and the new Town Library in Maranello, Italy.{{cite book|title=Musei: Architetture 1990–2000|isbn=978-8871791999|last1=Peressut|first1=Luca Basso|year=1999|publisher=F. Motta }}

Despite designing buildings both inside and outside Japan, Isozaki was sometimes described as an architect who refused to be stuck in one architectural style, highlighting "how each of his designs is a specific solution born out of the project’s context."{{cite web |last1=Leardi |first1=Lindsey |title=Arata Isozaki on "Ma," the Japanese Concept of In-Between Space |url=https://www.archdaily.com/882896/arata-isozaki-on-ma-the-japanese-concept-of-in-between-space |website=ArchDaily |access-date=4 March 2019}} Isozaki won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019.

Isozaki died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 91.{{cite news |title=Muere el arquitecto Arata Isozaki, autor del Palau Sant Jordi |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20221229/8662467/muere-arquitecto-arata-isozaki.html |access-date=29 December 2022 |publisher=La Vanguardia |date=29 December 2022}}

Awards

  • Annual Prize, Architectural Institute of Japan in 1967 and 1975{{Cite web|url=https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/2019PritzkerPrize_MediaKit_030419.pdf|title=2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize Media Kit|date=March 2019|website=Pritzker Architecture Prize|publisher=The Hyatt Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307010918/https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/2019PritzkerPrize_MediaKit_030419.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2019|url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2019}}
  • Mainichi Art Award in 1983
  • RIBA Gold Medal in 1986
  • International Award "Architecture in Stone" in 1987
  • Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988
  • Chicago Architecture Award in 1990
  • Honor Award, the American Institute of Architects in 1992
  • RIBA Honorary Fellow in 1994
  • Golden Lion, 6 Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1996
  • The European Cultural Centre (ECC) Architecture Award in 2012{{Cite web |title=ALL ECC AWARDS |url=https://europeanculturalcentre.eu/eccaward/alleccawards |access-date=30 December 2022 |website=europeanculturalcentre.eu}}
  • Pritzker Prize in 2019

Gallery

Image:Ooita-Ishi.jpg|One of Isozaki's early projects, Oita Medical Hall (1959-1960), "mixed New Brutalism and Metabolist Architecture," according to one critic

Image:Arata Isozaki-Maquesta del Palau Sant Jordi.jpg|Model of Isozaki's Palau Sant Jordi (1986)

Image:Mito Art Tower.JPG|Art Tower Mito in Mito, Ibaraki (1990)

Image:Aerial photo of the Team Disney building.jpg|Team Disney Orlando (1992)

Image:Isozaki (11-11-08).jpg|Entrance to CaixaForum Barcelona (2001)

Notable works

Last projects

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.isozaki.co.jp/ Arata Isozaki & associates]
  • {{MoMA artist|2837}}
  • Corkill, Edan. "[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080601x1.html Arata Isozaki: Astonishing by design]". Japan Times, 1 June 2008.
  • Sarah F. Maclaren, "Arata Isozaki e la fine dell’utopia", in "Il senso della fine", Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 19, 2009: 61–75. ISSN 1723-0284.
  • [http://www.city-life.it/en/chi-siamo/gli-architetti/ CityLife] Official website of the project
  • Liddell, Colin. "[http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/art-reviews/arata-isozaki-solaris/ Arata Isozaki: Solaris]". Metropolis, 23 January 2014.

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