Feature: Arata Isozaki in the 1970s Practice and Theory

摘要

Arata Isozaki was born in 1931 in Oila, Japan. Isozaki graduated from the Department of Architecture. Faculty of Engineering. at the University of Tokyo in 1954.In 1963. he established Arata Isozaki & Associates. From his 1960s work, such as the Oita Prefectural Library, to his 1990s work in localions as far afield as Barcelona, Orlando. Krakow. Nagi (Okayama Prefecture), Kyoto, Nara. La Coruna. Akiyoshidai (Yamaguchi prefeeture), and Berlin, to his 21st century work in the Middle East, China, and Central Asia, Isozaki has created an architecture so personal in its ideas and spaces that it defies characterization in any single school of thought.At the same time. he resists the temptation to apply a signature slyle to his jobs, preferring instead to create architectural solutions specific to the political.social, and cultural contexts of the client and site in question. His activities, spannting over a half-century, have gone beyond thought. art. design, music. film. theatre. and, of course, anchitecture, and they have raised questions spanning multiple ages and multiple disciplines.