The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, Pritzker laureate and author of the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, ​​dies

The prestigious Japanese architect

and with an extensive selection of projects in Spain, who died of natural causes at the age of 91 on the 28th, was born in 1931 in the city of Oita, on the island of Kyushu. (southwest).

He grew up very marked by the atomic bombings of the nearby cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the postwar period in his country.

Upon receiving the Pritzker, he assured that he became interested in his discipline "for how architecture and a city can rise from ground zero."

With a degree in architecture and engineering from the prestigious University of Tokyo, he began working in the studio of the internationally renowned

, one of the figures of so-called

View of the Isozaki Atea complex in Bilbao.IÑAKI ANDRÉS

A career that began in 1963

In 1963 he established his own studio, and his first works, such as the Oita Prefectural Library, were precisely a cross between Japanese metabolism and the new European brutalism.

His projects, always eclectic and without a totally defined style, began to take on a more modernist air as the years went by and he began to carry out works abroad, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles or the

​​which would be the first of many works carried out in Spain.

It would be followed by the Domus de

the Palafolls Sports Pavilion, the

University Park , the Isozaki Atea complex in

, the Ciudad del Motor in

or the La Horra wineries in

.

"He always helped our generation by always inviting us to his house and introducing us to many people, many from abroad," recalls the architect Toyo Ito in a telephone conversation.

Ito, born in 1941 and one of the great names in Japanese architecture, also recognized the impetus that

gave to his projects such as the Sendai Media Library, having presided over the juries that awarded him.

"He was an extraordinarily intellectual architect who also achieved a perfect concentration and connection between words and architecture," he added.

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