Kishō Kurokawa

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Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
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Kishō Kurokawa ( Japanese 黒 川 紀 章 , Kurokawa Kishō ; * April 8, 1934 in Nagoya ; † October 12, 2007 in Tokyo ) was an architect well-known beyond the borders of Japan, who gained worldwide attention as a representative of metabolism .

Life

After studying architecture in Kyoto and Tokyo, Kisho Kurokawa co-founded the metabolism movement in Japan at the age of 26 with Kiyonori Kikutake , Fumihiko Maki , Sachio Otaka and Noboin Kawazoe , which pursued the thought of the life cycle of birth and growth To transfer town planning and architecture. Working as a student trainee with Kenzō Tange , where traditional Japanese architecture was combined with Western thought patterns, was certainly beneficial. In 1961 he founded his own office and dealt with high-tech components and prefabrication . In 1964 Kurokawa received his doctorate from Tokyo University . He was a professor at the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia .

Kishō Kurokawa died of heart failure on October 12, 2007 at the age of 73.

Act

According to the metabolists, buildings and cities must be able to adapt flexibly to the changing needs of their users. In the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo from 1970, living capsules were mounted on a tower. Megastructures also shaped the designs for the Floating City in Kasumigaura and the 1970 Expo pavilion in Osaka . In his book The Philosophy of Symbiosis , Kurokawa later developed a new theory: overcoming opposites such as architecture-nature or private-public. Kurokawa tirelessly calls for a paradigm shift on the way from the machine age to the age of the life principle .

Among the numerous well-known projects and buildings in Japan, the National Museum of Ethnology and the Bunraku Theater in Tokyo, art museums in Hiroshima , Wakayama and his hometown Nagoya in central Japan should be mentioned. In recent years the Ehime Science Museum, a convention center in Ōsaka and sports stadiums in Ōita and Toyota have been built . The National Art Center , built according to Kurokawa's design in Tokyo, was completed in 2005. Among the worldwide activities are the renovation of the Japanese Embassy in Berlin , the Sino-Japanese Youth Center in Beijing , the Central Building in Melbourne , the Pacific Tower in Paris , the Kuala Lumpur Airport and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam . Most recently, Kishō Kurokawa worked on the Chinese new towns of Zhengdong and Zhengzhou .

In the summer of 2005, the exhibition “Metabolism and Symbiosis” was shown in the DAM in Frankfurt am Main and in the Berlin DAZ ( German Architecture Center ), which gave an overview of Kurokawa's work over the past decades.

Memberships

  • President of the Japan Art Academy
  • Membership of The Japan Society of Landscape Design
  • Member of the Architectural Institute of Japan
  • Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects AIA (1981)
  • Honorary member of the Union of Architects in Bulgaria (UAB) (1982)
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA (1986)
  • Honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA
  • Honorary member of the Union of Architects of the Republic of Kazakhstan, (Kazakhstan) (2000)
  • Member of the Ordre des Architects, France (1990)

honors and awards

literature

  • Peter Cachola Schmal, Ingeborg Flagge and Jochen Visscher (eds.): Kisho Kurokawa. Metabolism and Symbiosis . German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main, jovis Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936314-44-6

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personal data
SURNAME Kurokawa, Kishō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黒 川 紀 章 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya , Japan
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2007
Place of death Tokyo