Metabolism in Architecture
Author | : Kishō Kurokawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1977 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106006269986 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Even 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.