Arata Isozaki Explained

Arata Isozaki
Spouse:Aiko Miyawaki
Birth Date:23 July 1931[1]
Birth Place:Ōita, Japan
Death Place:Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Alma Mater:University of Tokyo (1954 and 1961)

Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022)[2] was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist[3] 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.[4]

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.[1] 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.[5] 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.[6]

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."[7] Isozaki won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019.

Isozaki died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 91.[8]

Awards

Notable works

Last projects

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Goodwin . Dario . Spotlight: Arata Isozaki . ArchDaily . 4 March 2019.
  2. News: Giovannini . Joseph . 29 December 2022 . Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 . en-US . The New York Times . 30 December 2022 . 0362-4331.
  3. News: The man who fused east and west: Arata Isozaki wins Pritzker Prize in architecture. Qin. Amy. 9 March 2019. Independent. 26 June 2019.
  4. Web site: Yamaguchi . Mari . 30 December 2022 . Isozaki, Pritzker-winning Japanese architect, dies at 91 . 30 December 2022 . ABC News . en.
  5. Web site: Arata Isozaki's Palladium Nightclub Through the Lens of Timothy Hursley. 7 March 2019. ArchDaily.
  6. Book: Musei: Architetture 1990–2000. 978-8871791999. Peressut. Luca Basso. 1999. F. Motta .
  7. Web site: Leardi . Lindsey . Arata Isozaki on "Ma," the Japanese Concept of In-Between Space . ArchDaily . 4 March 2019.
  8. News: Muere el arquitecto Arata Isozaki, autor del Palau Sant Jordi . 29 December 2022 . La Vanguardia . 29 December 2022.
  9. Web site: 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize Media Kit. March 2019. Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Hyatt Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307010918/https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/2019PritzkerPrize_MediaKit_030419.pdf. 7 March 2019. live. 6 March 2019.
  10. Web site: ALL ECC AWARDS . 30 December 2022 . europeanculturalcentre.eu.
  11. Web site: AD Classics: Museum of Modern Art, Gunma / Arata Isozaki . ArchDaily. 4 August 2011 .
  12. Web site: Log 41. Anyone Corporation.
  13. Book: Isozaki . Arata . Brian Clarke: Into and Out of Architecture . Cook . Peter . Isozaki . Arata . Niimi . Ryu . Foster . Norman . The Mayor Gallery . 1990 . London . Stained Glass: Work of Art . 3075678W.
  14. Book: Arata Isozaki: Architecture 1960–1990. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Rizzoli International Publications. 1991. 0-8478-1319-3. New York. 291.
  15. Web site: Artist Interview: Satoshi Miyagi (Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center) . Performing Arts Network Japan . 29 October 2012 . 14 December 2021.
  16. Web site: A Triumphant 'Olympics' in Japan . The New York Times. Gilles . Kennedy . 16 June 1999 . 14 December 2021.
  17. Web site: Frearson . Amy . Qatar National Convention Centre by Arata Isozaki . Dezeen . 22 August 2013 . 4 March 2019.
  18. Web site: D38 Office / Arata Isozaki . ArchDaily. 26 July 2012 .
  19. Web site: ALLIANZ Tower / Arata Isozaki + Andrea Maffei . ArchDaily . 16 November 2015 . 4 March 2019.

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