But he never forgot the stunning Yoyogi stadium, designed by famed architect Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), which inspired him. “The architecture reconciles the East and the West by linking Japanese ...

Japanese design principles are renowned for their exquisite simplicity, unmatched functionality and timeless elegance.

Kenzo Tange's 1960 Tokyo Bay Plan reflected the zeitgeist of a society enamored by rapid technological advancement and post-war optimism. Buckminster Fuller's 1959 dome concept over Manhattan was ...

The historical narrative of Modernism is overwhelmingly western. However, the history of the movement is, in reality, one of constant diffusion between the East and West; between Europe and Japan.

The cultural center, designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), is a two-story concrete structure. The motif of the building is said to be the mountains of the ...