| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans ; 35 cm |
| Series |
Millennium |
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Millennium (Mulgrave, Vic.)
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Millennium.
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| Summary |
"My start as an architect, and the Metabolism movement in 1960, began as a challenge against this Age of Machine. Today, at the end of the 20th century, the prediction that the world will make a shift from the Age of Machine principle to the Age of Life principle is gradually proving true." "The Philosophy of Symbiosis, which I advocate as the key word for the 21st century, is becoming the most advanced key word in many areas such as physics, biology, biochemistry, electronics, economics, politics, science, philosophy, art, literature, architecture, and urban design." "The legacy we should preserve from modern architecture is, I believe, abstraction. This is common to modern architecture, modern art, and modern philosophy. In the Philosophy of Symbiosis and intercultural architecture, abstraction will be a connotation to produce multivalent meanings." |
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"By combining the abstraction of the 20th century with the iconography of history and the cultural identity of topos in a cosmology of culture, I am trying to tackle the philosophical challenge of Abstract Symbolism."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 248-253 |
| Subject |
Kurokawa, Kishō, 1934-2007 -- Themes, motives.
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Kurokawa, Kishō, 1934-2007.
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Architects -- Japan.
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Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Postmodern -- Japan.
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Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Whyte, Andy.
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| LC no. |
2001339509 |
| ISBN |
186470019X |
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