Over the years, I’ve posted quite a few time about the “Kumamoto Artpolis” project. I didn’t realize, however, that Arata Isozaki, who has just won the Pritzker architecture prize, was intimately involved in it:
“Kumamoto Artpolis is an innovative urban planning and architecture project that has garnered a lot of international interest and praise since its inception in 1988. World famous architects such as Tadao Ando have contributed work to the project. The Kumamoto Artpolis project was the brainchild of the then Governor of Kumamoto, Morihiro Hosokawa, and architect Arata Isozaki. Hosokawa later became a Prime Minister of Japan, and Isozaki was Commissioner of the project until 1997 when Toyo Ito took over.”
https://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-city-guides/kumamoto-artpolis
– Kirk
