Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is known for using bold, exaggerated forms and inventive detailing. He often integrates Eastern ideas into his designs.
Born:
July 23, 1931 in Oita, Kyushu, Japan
Education of Arata Isozaki:
- 1954: University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering
- Apprenticed with architect Kenzo Tange
Important Buildings by Arata Isozaki:
Arata Isozaki is known for using bold, exaggerated forms and inventive detailing. His works include:
Arata Isozaki's Influences:
Many critics have identified Arata Isozaki with the imaginative, Japanese New Wave movement known as
Metabolism.
Arata Isozaki & Associates:
About Arata Isozaki:
Born and educated in Japan, Arata Isozaki often integrates Eastern ideas into his designs.
For example, Isozaki wanted to express a yin-yang theory of positive and negative space when he designed the Team Disney Building in Orlando, Florida. Also, because the offices were to be used by time-conscious executives, he wanted the architecture to make a statement about time.
Serving as offices for the Walt Disney Corporation, the Team Disney Building is a startling landmark on the otherwise barren stretch of Florida's Route I-4. The oddly looped gateway suggests gigantic Mickey Mouse ears. At the building's core, a 120-foot sphere forms the world's largest sundial. Inside the sphere is a serene Japanese rock garden.
Isozaki's Team Disney design won a prestigious National Honor Award from the AIA in 1992.
References:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
