Kisho Kurokawa (1934) belongs to what we could call the fourth generation of twentieth-century architects, disciples of what Sigfried Giedion called the “Third Generation” and who began to develop their work in the sixties. Specifically, Kurokawa worked during this decade in the office of Kenzo Tange, as did Arata Isozaki.

The Nagoya museum is structured according to the interplay of two bodies. One of them, which houses the rooms of the museum itself, and the other, open at an angle of approximately thirty degrees, where the entrances, staircases and annex services are located...[+]