He emerged as an international leader in architecture in the 1980s, with his first overseas commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1981-1986 California, USA). Isozaki demonstrated a worldwide vision that was ahead of his time and facilitated a dialogue between East and West.
Isozaki and Jasper Johns (photo courtesy of Shigeo Anzai) Significant works in his early career include the Ōita Prefectural Library (1962-1966 Ōita, Japan), Expo ’70 Festival Plaza (1966-1970 Osaka, Japan), The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (1971-1974 Gunma, Japan), and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka (1972-1974 Fukuoka, Japan). Paradoxically, this came to be my own style.” His work began locally, with many buildings in his hometown and Fukuoka, and quickly expanded to Gunma, Osaka and Tokyo. “In order to find the most appropriate way to solve these problems, I could not dwell upon a single style.
He established Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1963, after the Allied occupation when Japan had regained its sovereignty and was seeking physical rebuilding amidst political, economic and cultural uncertainty from the decimation of WWII. Isozaki graduated from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1954, and began his career with an apprenticeship under the guidance of 1987 Pritzker Prize Laureate Kenzo Tange. So, my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities.” Only barracks and shelters surrounded me. It was in complete ruins, and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city. Across the shore, the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, so I grew up near ground zero. “When I was old enough to begin an understanding of the world, my hometown was burned down. He was 14 years old when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, and builds with the theory that while buildings are transitory, they should please the senses of the users presently passing through and around them. 2019 Laureate Arata Isozaki was born in Ōita, Island of Kyushu, Japan in 1931 prior to the onset of World War II.
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