Main entry:

Kurokawa, Kishō, 1934-2007.

Title & Author:

Intercultural architecture : the philosophy of symbiosis / Kisho Kurokawa.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Institute of Architects Press, ©1991.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Cover title: Kurokawa intercultural architecture.
Includes bibliographical references.
Hanasukiya: the aesthetic of symbiosis -- Transcending modernism -- Edo: precursor of the age of symbiosis -- Rikyu Grey, Baroque and Camp: Ambiguity and ambivalence -- An experimental city in the desert -- The philosophy of the street and intermediary space -- The philosophy of consciousness only -- The symbiosis of man and nature -- The philosophy of the Karakuri -- From post-modernism to symbiosis -- Towards the evocation of meaning -- The symbiosis of redevelopment and restoration.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Here architect Kurokawa gives us a further explication of his synthesist theory of architecture, called symbiosis. In his explanation he draws on aspects of human culture that are often lacking in modern architecture: the values of humanness and the use and presentation of wabi the patina of culture something develops over time and the cultural value it represents. -- From Amazon.

ISBN:

1558350357
9781558350359
155835039X
9781558350397

Subject:

Architecture and society History 20th century.
Symbiosis (Psychology)
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Symbiose (Psychologie)
Architecture and society
Architektur
Kulturkontakt
Architecture Philosophy.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Kurokawa intercultural architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 199590
Call No.: NA44.K969.A35 1991
Copy: copy 2
Status: Available