Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner Arata Isozaki dies | building

Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner Arata Isozaki dies |  building

Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who was distinguished by b Pritzker Prize 2019 and signed the Palau Saint Jordi pavilion, in Barcelona, ​​the mobile Ark Nova concert hall (with Anish Kapoor, in Japan) or the building El Drito, in Milan, at the age of 91. Growing up in the ruins of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, he encountered and then was inspired by the scorched earth around him. Decades later, he has become “a great figure in contemporary architecture,” architectural critic Jorge Figuera told PÚBLICO in 2019. The news of his death was confirmed by the Spanish newspaper. vanguard Next to the Architect’s Atelier, powered by Country and the EFE News Agency.

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