Theorist
Arata Isozaki
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Details
- Nationality
- Japanese
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophicalEast asian
Connections
- proposed Ma (間, the spatial-temporal interval)
- authored MA: Space-Time in Japan
- proposed Ma — Interval as Architectural Primitive
- designed MA: Space-Time in Japan
- associated with Metabolism
Sources
- Arata Isozaki. MA: Space-Time in Japan (exhibition catalogue). Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979.
- Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition. Arata Isozaki. hiroshima-architecture-exhibition.jp, 2025.
- Isozaki, Arata. MA: Space-Time in Japan. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979.
- Arata Isozaki. Japan-ness in Architecture. MIT Press, 2006.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Arata Isozaki." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/arata-isozaki/. Accessed September 1, 2026.