Japan’s most influential modernist architect, Kenzo Tange’s importance can be traced through both his own work and that of his many students and admirers. Tange was born in 1913 and found early inspiration in the publications of Le Corbusier, later working under Corbusier’s student Kunio Maekawa. Tange’s winning design for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in 1949 brought him to international attention, and was followed by a series of public buildings including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office (1957) and the Kagawa Prefectural Government Office (1958). Tange’s influence grew through the 1960s and his work, studied around the world, became increasingly expressive and technologically complex. The Yoyogi National Gymnasium (1964) and St Mary’s Cathedral (1964) typify this period. Tange taught and employed many of Japan’s post-war architectural trailblazers, including Arata Isozaki, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, and Sachio Otani. The Metabolist movement of the 1960s first emerged from Tange’s office, and found expression in radical urban masterplans for Tokyo and Skopje, and in the much-published Yamanashi Press and Broadcaster Centre (1966). Tange’s masterplan for the 1970 World Expo in Osaka brought together many key figures of the period, creating a cross-section of contemporary Japanese architectural thinking. Tange continued to practice into the 2000s, and collected dozens of architectural honours, including the 1987 Pritzker Architecture Prize.