ARCHITECTURE MONOGRAPHS

Kisho Kurokawa
From Metabolism to Symbiosis
58 minutes, color

Narration by Kenneth Frampton.

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of oriental forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. This documentary follows him to his major accomplishments in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York . Kurokawa died in 2007.

Kisho Kurokawa
© Keisuke Kumakiri