Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who was one of the country's most influential post-war architects, has passed away aged 91.
Isozaki, who was responsible for over 100 buildings in his six-decade-long career, died yesterday at his home in Okinawa.
Kitakyushu Central Library was one of Isozaki's early brutalist works. Photo courtesy of Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Isozaki was known both for his early Japanese brutalism, including the ?ita Prefectural Library, and later international modernist buildings like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
He won numerous awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019, RIBA Gold Medal in 1986 and the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Architectural Biennale 1996.
He designed the Palau Sant Jordi for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Photo courtesy of Hisao Suzuki Isozaki was born in 1931 in ?ita on Kyushu ? Japan's third largest island ? and studied at the University of Tokyo under Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1987.
After graduating he worked for Tange, before establishing his own studio, Arata Isozaki & Associates, nine years later in 1963.
His notable early works combined elements of Japanese brutalism and metabolism and include the ?ita Prefectural Library in 1966, Expo '70 Festival Plaza in Osaka in 1970 and the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Fukuoka in 1974.

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