Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has handed away at his residence on the prefecture of Okinawa, aged 91.
Isozaki died on 28 December 2022 of “pure causes,” an announcement from his workplace learn. A personal funeral service was held for shut family solely.
Isozaki was born in Oita, Japan, in 1931, and studied structure and engineering on the College of Tokyo, graduating in 1954 earlier than finishing his doctoral program on the identical college in 1961. He maintained that his path to structure was deeply influenced by the destruction he witnessed within the Hiroshima bombings throughout World Struggle II, when he was simply 14 years outdated.
“My first expertise of structure was the void of structure, and I started to think about how folks would possibly rebuild their properties and cities,” Isozaki mentioned throughout his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech in 2019. The forty sixth recipient of the celebrated prize, Isozaki was additionally awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Leone d’Oro on the Venice Architectural Biennale in 1996.
Isozaki leaves behind a six-decade profession in structure, with greater than 100 buildings to his title throughout Asia, Europe, North America, the Center East and Australia, together with the Museum of Modern Artwork in Los Angeles (1986), Kitakyushu Central Library in Fukuoka (1974), and Ark Nova with artist Anish Kapoor (2013).
His fashion “defies categorization,” the Pritzker jury mentioned, embracing the avant-garde and often difficult the established order. His buildings, written works, exhibitions and lectures have had a notable impression on the trade throughout each the East and the West, and he’s usually cited as the primary Japanese architect to forge a deep and lasting relationship between the 2 cultures.
The 2019 jury described Isozaki as “a flexible, influential, and actually worldwide architect.”
