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Kisho Kurokawa

1934 - 2007

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Kisho Kurokawa (黒川 紀章, Kurokawa Kishō) (April 8, 1934 – October 12, 2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kisho Kurokawa has received more than 369,445 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kisho Kurokawa is the 167th most popular architect (up from 172nd in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 501st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Architect.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 167 out of 518. Before him are Fumihiko Maki, David Chipperfield, Mikhail Eisenstein, Carl Ludvig Engel, Michael Ventris, and Bernard Tschumi. After him are Jacques-François Blondel, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Neufert, Günter Behnisch, William Le Baron Jenney, and Joseph Paxton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 109. Before him are Cláudio Hummes, Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, Jean Sorel, Garry Marshall, and Fredric Jameson. After him are Tony Hoare, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, Kira Muratova, and Paul Cohen. Among people deceased in 2007, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 82. Before him are Vilma Espín, Mary Douglas, Ira Levin, István Sándorfi, Mika Špiljak, and Nobuo Matsunaga. After him are Atle Selberg, Maurice Papon, Denny Doherty, Paul Cohen, Teddy Kollek, and Arawa Kimura.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 503 out of 6,245. Before him are Masao Ono (1923), Emperor Kameyama (1249), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Reizo Fukuhara (1931), Kōichirō Matsuura (1937), and Minamoto no Yoriie (1182). After him are Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Saichō (767), Emperor Yōzei (867), Fusako Shigenobu (1945), and Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Japan

Among architects born in Japan, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 5. Before him are Tadao Ando (1941), Kenzō Tange (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), and Fumihiko Maki (1928). After him are Shigeru Ban (1957), Kazuyo Sejima (1956), Kengo Kuma (1954), Kunio Maekawa (1905), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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