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Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis

Have You Watched? • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-1993

Serving as a detailed portrait of the acclaimed Japanese architect, this film engages with Kisho Kurokawa, who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of traditional forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. In a merging of philosophy, culture, space and narrative, Kurokawa has created a body of work that he defines as symbiotic, which he specifies as "the simultaneous expression of conflicting things in a symbiotic manner" (Kisho Kurokawa). Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis follows him to many of his major accomplishments in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York.

Tags
The Photography Museum at Nara, Nagakin Tower, The Sony Tower, Fukuoka Bank, Hiroshima City Art Museum, Shirase Memorial Hall, Chokaso Lodge, Nagoya Museum, Japanese/German cultural center, Shirase Antarctic Exploration Memorial Hall, The Chicago Sports Center, The Chokaso Guest House, Japanese architecture, culture, tradition, space, European Classical, Buddhism, Metabolism, symbiosis, philosophy, International Style, metamorphosis, Gothic architecture, cylinder, cone, gateways, Modernism, WW2, abstraction, narrative architecture
Cast
Kisho Kurokawa Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Michael Blackwood producer
Kenneth Frampton head writer
Michael Blackwood producer
Peter Brugger producer

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