Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis
1993 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood
Narration by Kenneth Frampton
Serving as a detailed portrait of the acclaimed Japanese architect, this film engages with Kisho Kurokawa, who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of traditional forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. In a merging of philosophy, culture, space and narrative, Kurokawa has created a body of work that he defines as symbiotic, which he specifies as “the simultaneous expression of conflicting things in a symbiotic manner” (Kisho Kurokawa). Kisho Kurokawa: From Metabolism to Symbiosis follows him to many of his major accomplishments in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York.
Directed by
Michael Blackwood
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Kenneth Frampton
Cast
Kisho Kurokawa
Produced by
Michael Blackwood … producer
Peter Brugger … executive producer
Cinematography by
Mark Trottenberg
Film Editing by
Joelle Schon
Sound Department
Esther Regelson … sound editor
Joe Romano … sound mixer
Camera and Electrical Department
Liz Dory … assistant camera (as Elizabeth Dory)
Additional Crew
Nobuo Abe … Location Assistant
Georgia Cooper … distribution director
Aiko Mogi … Location Assistant
Marc Mussche … Location Assistant
Itsushi Okazaki … Location Assistant
Hiroko Suzuki … location interpreter
Yoshiko Takahawa … Location Assistant
Masamitsu Takinama … Location Assistant
Ichiroo Tanaka … Location Assistant
Hiroshi Totoki … location assistant
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