Intercultural architecture : the philosophy of symbiosis / Kisho Kurokawa
1991, First Edition. London : Academy Editions. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #404712
ISBN: 1854900471
Physical description; 208 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm. Notes; Translated from the Japanese. 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. Subjects; Kurokawa, Kish 1934-2007. Architecture Japan History 20th century. Architecture, Japanese. Culture diffusion Japan. Intercultural architecture. Architecture and society History 20th century. Symbiosis (Psychology).
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