I'm pretty honest (with myself), so I knew even if I wanted to, I couldn't win," he said. "From that point on, I came to see him as 'the Master' - and there was no way I'd ever exceed him. After all, everything in daily life was architecture."Įducated in Switzerland and at Harvard, the younger Tange joined his father's firm upon graduation in 1985.
"Before I really knew it, I wanted to follow the same path. At meals, conversations were about architecture," recalled Paul in a rare interview. "Our days were spent visiting Tange project construction sites.
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Still, Paul used principles learned from his father, a workaholic often late for dinner, who enjoyed Jackie Chan and TV samurai dramas, and took his family on vacations to construction sites around the world.
Re-use and sustainability are the mantras under which Paul designed his venue for a Games overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. When the elder Tange built the Yoyogi National Gymnasium as a swimming arena for the 1964 Games, its bold floating roof and spires - evoking Japanese temples and suspension bridges - became a symbol of Japan's triumphant return to the world stage after wartime defeat, helping to make Asia's first Olympics a riotous celebration of resurrection and renewal.īut in 2021, Japan is an aging nation that has struggled for years with economic malaise, and its crowded, high-rise capital is a very different place.
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