Artworks

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Artwork · Kenzō Tange · 1961–1964 · building

The most famous building of the 1960s, built by Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) for the Olympic Games of 1964, which many historians see as the moment Japan showed the world its Economic Miracle: Structural Expressionism in concrete and steel cable. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 351–352, fig. 409. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.