Kenzo Tange, Seijo, Tokyo, Japan, 1951-1953
OfHouses presents “Pritzkers’ First Houses, part IV”: Kenzo Tange (Pritzker 1987) was the most important Japanese architect in the 20th Century. The only house he designed was his family’s residence in Seijo. Tange elegantly managed to reconcile here the Western modernism with the Japanese tradition and is no wonder that Kazuo Shinohara, the other grandmaster of Japanese architecture, took the Tange House as the main reference for his first project (the House in Kugayama, 1954). (Photos: Ezra Stoller/ESTO.)
