I thought we'd talked about Kenzō Tange, no?
We must have.
Maybe it was just on Instagram.
Kenzō Tange is one of my favorite Japanese Architects—a close second behind Tadao Ando—and what he was doing in 60s-80s was mind-melting.
We visited his Brutalist behemoth that is St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo last year:
As well as his perfect-example-of-this-bananas-in-theory-Metabolist-mindset in the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center in Tokyo.
Kenzō is (was) incredible and well worth an hour (to start) of your time.
In 1950—five years after the bomb—he was tasked with building the Peace Pavilion (in and of itself an impressive time turnaround, considering the city was, well... I think we all know what the city looked like in 1945) and he delivered with this super clean, right-angled columned beauty (and winner of a few awards, I believe).
I care too much about architecture and know to little to write about it—one of those I know what I like but can't really explain it type things, but I'm telling you, getting into the history of The Peace Pavilion and Kenzō himself is a worthy use of your time.
