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Podcast: Talk Architecture
Episode: Learning from Kisho Kurokawa: Asian public space is the street!
Description: Send us Fan MailWe proposed a study on whether Malaysian architects, urban designers and planners refer to precedents of urban shophouses in the inner city streets of Malacca and George Town when coming up with concept and ideas in their work. Based on Michael Gibert's doctoral thesis, Kisho Kurokawa said that: "the difference between Western and Japanese concepts of space is the difference between spatial confrontation and spatial continuity", so do we Malaysian architectural designers think about these theories and put into practice and further that "the Japanese concept of space, on the contrary, reaches out...