Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.

In 2017, Isozaki donated his vast collection of books and quietly moved with his partner, Misa Shin, from Tokyo to Okinawa in search of warmer climes.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1954, Isozaki worked under 1987 Pritzker Prize laureate, Kenzo Tange, before setting up his own practice in 1963. In the subsequent decades Arata ...

The first time I met Arata Isozaki was in 2013. I came to his home in the posh Tokyo neighborhood of Azabu, where he appeared wearing a dark yukata, with his silver hair characteristically slicked ...

Born in the southern city of Oita, Isozaki studied architecture at the University of Tokyo's doctorate course. He then apprenticed to Kenzo Tange before founding Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1963.

Visionary and ever-evolving Japanese architect Arata Isozaki dies at 91 The 2019 Pritzker Prize winner, one of Japan's first architects to incorporate external influences, died on December 29.

TOKYO (AP) — Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died of old age.

Isozaki began his architectural career under the apprenticeship of Japanese legend Kenzo Tange, a 1987 Pritzker laureate, after studying architecture at the University of Tokyo, Japan's top school.

Award-winning architect Arata Isozaki, a giant in postmodern design since the 1960s, died Dec. 28 of natural causes at the age of 91.

Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died of old age. He was 91.

Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died of old age. He was 91.

TOKYO — Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died. He was 91.