The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has passed away this Thursday at the age of 91, as confirmed to La Vanguardia by a spokesperson for his studio. Born in Oita, on the island of Kyushu, Isozaki grew up in a Japan destroyed by World War II.
"I grew up in ground zero, marked by the idea of emptiness," he said in 2019, when he received the prestigious Pritzker prize. He studied architecture in Tokyo and, before turning 30, had already traveled around the world several times, wanting to see all kinds of architecture.
Among his prolific work we find the Oita library (1966), the Gunma Art Museum (1974), the Palladium nightclub in New York (1985), the Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona (1990) in Barcelona, the Art Tower Mito in Ibaraki (1990), or the Allianz tower in Milan (2014).
