Kisho Kurokawa

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(b. Aichi Prefecture, Japan 1934)

Kisho Kurokawa was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1934. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1957 and then studied at the Graduate School of Tokyo University under Kenzo Tange.

Early within his career Kurokawa rejected orthodox Modernism and a Western obsession with mechanical analogy. In the 1960s he founded a Japanese avant-garde movement known as the Metabolists to combat this Western Modernism and to propagate a philosophy of radical change. Despite the group's initial success at Expo 70 in Osaka, the group disbanded.

Many of Kurokawa's buildings explore the notion of engawa, the "in between space" where public realm and private space co-exist in harmony. His recent architecture has achieved considerable international acclaim and has secured a series of prestigious commissions. He abhors traditionalism, but feels that the respective cultures of different countries offer the most appropriate response to contemporary malaise.

References
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p90.

Kisho Kurokawa Architects & Associates
11F Aoyama Bldg
1-2-3 Kita-Aoyama
Minato-ku
Toyko 107-0061
Japan
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"Kurokawa Art Center", by C.B. Liddell, ArchitectureWeek No. 329, 2007.0404, pD1.1.

Kisho Kurokawa. Kisho Kurokawa : The Architecture of Symbiosis, 1979 to 1987. New York: Rizzoli, 1988. ISBN 0-8478-0909-9. LC 87-43253. NA1559.K82A35 1988.

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