Kisho
Kurokawa graduated from Kyoto University in 1957 and then
studied at the Graduate School of Tokyo University under
Kenzo Tange. Early in his career Kurokawa rejected Modernism
and in the 1960s he founded a Japanese avant-garde movement
known as the Metabolists to combat this Western Modernism
and to propagate a philosophy of radical change. Despite
the group's initial success at Expo 70 in Osaka, the group
disbanded. Many of Kurokawa's recent buildings have achieved
considerable international acclaim.
Selected Works:
National Ethnological Museum, Osaka, Japan 1973-1977
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1988-1989
New Wing of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990-1998
