Japanese architect and urban designer Kenzo Tange, D.Art Harvard 1971 hon., was educated at the University of Tokyo where he also served as a professor from 1946 to 1974. Tange received numerous prizes and honorary degrees from universities in the United States, Europe and the Far East. His built work spans the globe -- in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1980 it was noted that "Kenzo Tange's work reflects and crystallizes the changing political and economic climate of Japan in a quarter century, from the nationalism of World War II, through the defeat and reconstruction, to the renewed search for national identity and growth in confidence."
Chisaburo Yamada; Kajima Construction Company, Limited; Kiyoshi Tamenaga; Minoru Toyoda; Olga Casini; Masahiko Iwata; Koji Kamiya; Taneo Oki; Masumi Ezaki; and additional anonymous donors made gifts to establish a professorship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design to honor Tange.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College established the Kenzo Tange Chair in 1983 to support a visiting professor or design critic in the Faculty of Design who is an internationally recognized architect or urbanist.
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Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive Exhibition