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Intercultural architecture : the philosophy of symbiosis

Title: Intercultural architecture : the philosophy of symbiosis / Kisho Kurokawa.
Author: Kurokawa, Kishō, 1934-2007.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : American Institute of Architects Press, ©1991.

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Description

208 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

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. --

Alternative Title

Kurokawa intercultural architecture.

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History

Note

Translated from the Japanese.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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.

ISBN

1558350357
9781558350359
155835039X
9781558350397

LCCN

92127562

OCLC

ocm23594543
23594543
SCSB-1918050

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library