1. ARATA ISOZAKI

2. BY ARAKA WILLIAM
AND IAN ACHIRA

4. LIFE AND HISTORY
 Born in 23 July, 1931
 Japanese Architect
 Graduated from the university of Tokyo in 1954
 Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange before establishing his own firm in 1963.
 He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986.
 His architecrural firm is Arata Isozaki & Associates
 In 2005, Arata Isozaki founded the Italian branch of his office: Arata Isozaki
& Andrea Maffei Associates

5. INSPIRATION
 His work in the late 1960s was influenced by the Metabolism school, but
mannerism is discernable in the exaggerated expression of the structural
members. The joint Core System that he developed in 1960 was essential to
the Metabolism movement and was influential to Tange, his former
teacher.
 His later works are Mannered and self-conscious, borrowing from a
spectrum of architectural influences. He appropriates design ideas from
such diverse sources as the Vienna Secession, Marcel Cuchamp and
Archigram.

6. Gunma Museum of Fine Arts
"The design is based on the interaction of two architectural systems:
a) The skeletal parti of forty-foot cubes (the basic structure)
b) The exhibition spaces, stairways, administrative offices, lighting, and so on.
(the supplemental structure).
The series of cubes, laid out on an expansive lawn in a parklike setting, takes
the form of one large rectangular block, which houses the main exhibition
space, and two shorter, projecting wings. The first of these is perpendicular to
the central block and contains the entrance hall. The second, angled off the
building's primary axis, holds a gallery for traditional Japanese art. This wing is
elevated above a square reflecting pool, with an open terrace at the first-floor
level."

8. The Museum of contemporary arts LA
The building is built around a terraced courtyard.
The galleries are below ground level, most having overhead lighting. Under the
courtyard, the galleries lead into each other from left to right.
Above the courtyard, the only building which stands out is the section devoted to
administration, with a roof in the shape of a semicircular dome
The whole geometric composition of the building is based on the golden section
as the Western method of planning shapes and subdivided the spaces, and on the
oriental theory of ying and yang, positive—negative.
The rooms in the extremes of the building have expressive skylights in
volumetrically pure shapes: various pyramids and a series of linear skylights
The exterior is a natural reddish coloured stone, contrasting with the transparent
skylights and the lustre of the semi-cylindrical roof of the offices..."

11. Shukosha Building
 Art gallery
 Concrete building
 Urban context
 Modern style

13. Team Disney Building
 Location – Near Orlando Florida
 Type – Creative commercial offices
 Construction system – Concrete
 Climate – Humid
 Context – Amusement Park
 Style – Post modern
 Isozaki employed this yin-yang theory of positive and negative space, with
a central tower that was very powerful, sculptural, looking toward the sky."

16. ART TOWER IN MITO
 Art Tower Mito is an arts complex in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
 It opened in 1990 as part of the centennial celebrations of the municipality
of Mito.
 There is a concert hall that seats 680, a theater for up to 636, a
contemporary art gallery, and a landmark tower.
 Arata Isozaki was the architect, with acoustical design by Nagata
Acoustics.

18. ARK NOVA – THE INFLATTIBLE CONCERT
HALL
 It looks like a giant eggplant, it blows up like a balloon, and it’s roomy
enough to host classical-musical concerts for an audience of 500 people
 It is a pneumatic structure made from an elastic shell that can be quickly
inflated and dismantled
 It was designed by British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect
Arata Isozaki

21. Qatar National Convention Centre
 Officially opened on 4 December 2011, QNCC was the first of its kind being built to the
gold certification standard of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy
and Environment Design (LEED).
 The building is designed to operate efficiently with innovations such as water
conservation and energy-efficient fixtures, and it is approximately 32 percent more
efficient compared with a similarly designed building that lack such innovations.
 One of the features is the 3,500sq m of solar panels providing 12.5 percent of the
Centre's energy needs. The exhibition halls are equipped with energy-efficient LED
lighting.
 Many other integrative design elements were included in the building to achieve the
highest level of environmental and sustainable standards.
 QNCC features a conference hall of 4,000 seats theatre style, a 2,300-seat theatre,
three auditoria and a total of 52 flexible meetings rooms to accommodate a wide
range of events. It also houses 40,000 square metres of exhibition space over nine halls,
and is adaptable to seat 10,000 for a conference or banquet.

24. References
 Archdaily.com
 Greatbuildings.com
 Archtecture.about.com