| Description |
1 online resource (1 streaming audio file (35 minutes)): sound, color + transcript, images of works |
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Kisho Kurokawa--Buildings Not As Permanent Monuments--Symbiosis With Nature--Stones In Traditional Japanese Garden--Resort Home, Karuizawa, 1973--Capsule Tower, Tokyo, 1972--Apartment Block, 1962--Toshiba IHI Pavilion, Expo 70, Osaka--Sony 'Information Tree'. 1975--Kumamoto Municipal Museum--Urban Hill Shopping Centre, 1980--Urban Hill Shopping Centre, 1980. Individual Units--Models Of Agricultural City. 'Visionary Architecture' Exhibition, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 1960--Central Complex For Bayer Plant Protection Labs--Traditional Kyoto Town House--Saitama Prefectural Art Museum Model--Private House, Tokyo, 1981--Model Of Part Of Plan For South--Friedrichstadt, Berlin--Todaiji Temple, Nara--TANU Headquarters & Parliament Building, Tanzania--Conference City For Abu Dhabi--Symbiosis Between Building & Natural Landscape--Headquarters Of Fukuoka Bank, Fukuoka--Semi-Public Space Between Public & Private Areas--Kisho Kurokawa Words In Japanese |
| Summary |
The late Kisho Kurokawa has been called "one of the boy-wonders" of modern Japanese architecture. In 1960 he gained international fame with the architectural theory of Metabolism, which he developed while working with Kenzo Tange. He has since been responsible for some fifty outstanding buildings, and written many books. He has also featured regularly on Japanese television. He describes the characteristics of Japanese culture: acceptance of impermanence and the need for change; integration of different cultures and ideas into a symbiotic relationship; provision of intermediary space between opposing elements. His greatest concern is how to apply these aspects to modern architecture, and he believes that Japanese culture offers keys to the problem. His work has always included the elements of growth and change. At the end of his talk, Kisho Kurokawa makes a short statement in his native Japanese |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Architects.
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Architectural design -- Japan
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Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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Streaming audio
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| Author |
Kurokawa, KishÅ, 1934-2007, narrator.
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