Arata Isozaki

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

Notes

[DRAFT] Japanese architect, theorist and curator, Pritzker Prize laureate (2019). Studied at the University of Tokyo under Kenzo Tange. He conceived and curated the touring exhibition 'MA: Space-Time in Japan' (1978-81, first shown at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris), which introduced the Japanese concept of 'ma' (the interval of space-time) to Western audiences. Data-quality note: the MA catalogue source appears twice in the sources list (duplicate entries with year as string '1979' and as integer 1979); one should be removed. The Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition (2025) entry is an ephemeral web source of limited scholarly value.

Connections

• proposed Ma (間, the spatial-temporal interval)
• proposed Ma — Interval as Architectural Primitive
• authored MA: Space-Time in Japan
• designed MA: Space-Time in Japan
• associated with Metabolism

Sources

1. Arata Isozaki. MA: Space-Time in Japan (exhibition catalogue). Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979.
2. Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition. Arata Isozaki. hiroshima-architecture-exhibition.jp, 2025.
3. Isozaki, Arata. MA: Space-Time in Japan. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1979.
4. Arata Isozaki. Japan-ness in Architecture. MIT Press, 2006.