Kisho Kurokawa

(Kanie, Japan, 1934-Tokyo, 2007)

Architect, theorist, philosopher and writer, co-founder of the so-called Metabolist Movement, for which architecture was a space open to society and in continuous change, like the evolution of living beings and whose works were based on themes such as ecology and recycling. Author of the expansion of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Tokyo Ethnological Museum, the Tokyo National Art Center, the largest art museum in Japan, a futuristic complex without a permanent collection, with an immense undulating façade made entirely of glass. He has received numerous distinctions such as the Gold Medal from the French Academy of Architecture in 1986, and the International Architecture Prize from the Athenaeum Museum in Chicago in 2006.