Farewell to Arata Isozaki, the architect of the never-realized project for the Uffizi Loggia

Arata Isozaki, theJapanese archistar who in 2019 was awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, has passed away at the age of 91 in Tokyo. Announcing his passing is Spanish news agency Efe, citing a spokesman for his Barcelona office.

In his career he designed more than a hundred buildings worldwide: among them, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona for the 1992 Games. In Italy, the Allianz Tower (the “Dritto”) in Milan with Italian Andrea Maffei and the Palasport Olimpico in Turin. His name is linked to the never-realized project for the Loggia degli Uffizi.

“I learn with great sorrow of the passing of Arata Isozaki, a great 20th-century architect of international renown. His abstract and limpid language was in part inspired by his profound knowledge of Italian Renaissance architecture,” is how the director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt expresses his condolences.

Farewell to Arata Isozaki, the architect of the never-realized project for the Uffizi Loggia

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