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Author: Maggie Kinser Saiki
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book included color photography, drawings, and text offering an understanding of the building's relationship to landscape, time and space.
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven in a country where outstanding achievements have become almost a commonplace, the Japanese architect, Kisho Kurokawa, appears as both a remarkable and a remarkably successful man. With buildings in the United States and Eastern and Western Europe as well as in Japan, he has established an international reputation as a leading figure amongst the younger generation of architects. At the age of forty he already had thirty-five major buildings and seventeen books to his credit; four new towns are being built to his designs; he heads a company of over a hundred employees, he runs a think-tank and an urban design bureau and for variety he has his own television programme with a regular audience of some 30 million. Behind these statistics lies a prodigious vitality expressed in original and stimulating buildings. -- from book jacket.
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781864700190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By combining the abstraction of the 20th century with the iconography of history and the cultural identity of topos in a cosmology of culture, I am trying to tackle the philosophical challenge of Abstract Symbolism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The word symbiosis comes from the Greek term for "living together" - referring to a relationship between two or more organisms that is not only advantageous but necessary to both. Today, as national boundaries give way to larger economic alliances, increased discussion and interchange is imperative. Kisho Kurokawa, the noted Japanese architect and urban planner, argues that symbiosis is the means to this end. Symbiosis differs basically from concepts of harmony or peace, because it encompasses both opposition and competition." "The author sees evidence everywhere that an increasingly symbiotic attitude is taking root around the world, not only in shifts toward democracy and interreliance but in the growing emphasis on pluralism, multiculturalism, and especially ecology - "the symbiosis of diverse species." The book touches on the writer's areas of professional specialization - architecture and urban planning - but the philosophy of symbiosis, which already boasts a substantial following among some of the world's most prominent political and business leaders, concerns us all." "In addition to multiple issues of direct concern to the evolving relationship - economic, political, and cultural - between the West and Japan, the second half of Each One a Hero: The Philosophy of Symbiosis analyzes in detail the Asian Renaissance underway today. A spotlight is thrown on Malaysia and the plan for a Multimedia Super Corridor, or Eco-Media City, currently attracting global notice and investment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst presented as a manifesto in the 1960s in Japan, "Metabolism" is a theory of architecture contending that "buildings and cities should be designed and developed in the same continuous way that the material substance of a natural organism is produced." From the time of Japan's postwar redevelopment to its period of rapid economic growth, the theory gave birth to grand visions of future cities, encouraged the realization of much experimental architecture, and also provided the foundation on which many of Japan's contemporary world-renowned architects and designers could build their careers. It is the most widely known modern architecture theory to have emerged from Japan. This exhibition is the first ever to pose the question of what significance Metabolism holds today. It draws on various documents and models to explore the thoughts and work of Tange Kenzo, which set the scene for the emergence of Metabolism, and the activities of the Metabolist architects and others during the 1960s up until Osaka's Expo '70, which in many ways was a showcase for the theory. It also represents an important opportunity to think about the necessity of archiving and preserving distinguished historical documents and records related to the movement.
Author: Rem Koolhaas
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetabolism was a movement launched in Japan that took inspiration for buildings and cities from biological systems. With interviews and commentary and hundreds of images, Project Japan unearths a history that casts new light on the key issues that both enervate and motivate architecture today.
Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780870707339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen. Texts by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Waen.
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 170
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780811824231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments the myriad ways that urban dwellers respond to the space crunch. Four hundred color photos take you inside the habitations of artists, students, young professionals, and families. -- Back cover.
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Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781864700794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA celebration of architecture from around the world profiling todays leading firms. The top one hundred firms.
