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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 351,220 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Kisho Kurokawa is the 173rd most popular architect (up from 177th in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 510th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 173 out of 424. Before him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Gio Ponti, Michele Sanmicheli, Tony Garnier, Konstantin Melnikov, and Carl Ritter von Ghega. After him are Mikhail Eisenstein, Jacques-François Blondel, Pietro Lombardo, Jacques Lemercier, Henri Labrouste, and Jan Gehl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 110. Before him are Howard Martin Temin, Leonard Kleinrock, Vladimir Posner, Ornella Vanoni, Tony Hoare, and Ken Rosewall. After him are Fredric Jameson, Kenzo Ohashi, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Lucien Bianchi, Umberto Agnelli, and Van Cliburn. Among people deceased in 2007, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 90. Before him are Petar Stambolić, Maria Gripe, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Hrant Dink, Denny Doherty, and Ian Stevenson. After him are Guy de Rothschild, E. Howard Hunt, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, David Lane, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kisho Kurokawa ranks 503 out of 6,048. Before him are Hisao Kami (1941), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Hibari Misora (1937), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Juntoku (1197), and Machiko Kyō (1924). After him are Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Fujiwara no Michinaga (966), Seki Matsunaga (1928), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), and Seishiro Shimatani (1938).

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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), and Ryue Nishizawa (1966).

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