The Design Method of Tange Kenzo

Abstract

Tange Kenzo owns a significant position in the modern architecture field,not just in Japan, but also world-wide. Japan even divided the history of modern architecture into two parts: before and after Tange Kenzo, from where we can find out his prestige in Japanese architecture field. The first work from Tange Kenzo which attracted people’s attention is the one that won the first prize in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park International Competition. After that, Tange Kenzo designed more projects at the national level, including the projects of Olympic games and World Expo. Among them the most famous project goes to design of Yoyogi National Gymnasium in host venue for Tokyo Olympic games in 1964. Yoyogi National Gymnasium is a mark proves that the level of architecture technology and design of Japan reached or even exceed the standard of advanced western country. Therefore Tange Kenzo was also known as ”World’s Tange”. This paper is trying to get more knowledge of the design method and reveal the design world by analyzing design works of this world-wide master of architecture - Tange Kenzo.