Actor
Awards: Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Royal Gold Medal, Order of Culture, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Praemium Imperiale, Person of Cultural Merit, Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan.