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Kisho Kurokawa (黒川 紀章, Kurokawa Kishō) (April 8, 1934 – October 12, 2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement . Biography. Kisho Kurokawa. Born in Kanie, Aichi, Kurokawa studied architecture at Kyoto University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1957.
Apr 8, 2020 · Kisho Kurokawa (April 8th 1934 – October 12th 2007) was one of Japan 's leading architects of the 20th century, perhaps most well-known as one of the founders of the Metabolist...
April 2024 Project introduction of "The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Tokyo, Japan"
Kurokawa Kishō (born April 8, 1934, Nagoya, Japan—died October 12, 2007, Tokyo) was a Japanese architect, who was one of the leading members of the Metabolist movement in the 1960s and ’70s. In his later work he achieved increasingly poetic qualities.
According to architect Kisho Kurokawa (黒川紀章, also anglicized as Noriaki Kurokawa), they are all “part of a continuous natural entity.” 1 In his designs and writing, he regarded biology not simply as a metaphor but also as a blueprint for architecture’s role in sustaining the “harmony of technology, humanity, and nature in modern ...
Aug 3, 2021 · Designed by renowned Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands as a symbol of Japan’s postwar cultural resurgence and an iconic example of the innovative architectural movement known as Japanese Metabolism.
Kisho Kurokawa is one of Japan's leading designers known for his theory of symbiosis. According to Kurokawa, "symbiosis" is an alternative conceptual model for Japanese architecture that simultaneously embodies seemingly conflicting ideas, such as universal principles and regional differences, Western and Eastern sensibilities, history and ...
Feb 9, 2011 · Architect Kisho Kurokawa was very innovative in his creation of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in 1972, which was the first capsule architecture design.
Oct 21, 2007 · Kisho Kurokawa, the influential Japanese architect and theorist behind projects like the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, a futurist complex penetrated by a rain forest, died on...
In 1982, the traveling exhibition "Kisho Kurokawa " started at the French Institute of Architecture, and then moved to Florence, Rome, Warsaw, Helsinki, Moscow, to finally become a permanent collection of the Architectural Museum in Wroclaw, Poland in 1986.
