Japanese Identity Throughout its history, Japan has striven to define its national identity not by its own means, but by those predefined by foreign, and most recently, Western powers. Despite legends of the island archipelago being created by the sun goddess Amaterasu, Japan seems to have consistently maintained a indecisive self-image with respect to its neighbors. In the past, China had represented the pinnacle of culture and technology and had tremendously influenced other surrounding countries
Kisho Kurokawa is a Japanese architect, who was born on April 8, 1934 in Kanie, Aichi. During Kurokawa’s Childhood it was bad times in Japan, Japan had just came back from war and many of the Country was destroyed. People were hungry and had very little. Kurokawa growing up had to burn books for heat and eat leafs that he found. His father, Miki Kurokawa was an architect but during that time busy repair and rebuilding Japan. His father later opened his own architecture company and built over 100
TYPES OF HOTELS • Apartment Hotels An Apartment Hotel is a type of accommodation, described as "a serviced apartment complex that uses a hotel style booking system". It is similar to renting an apartment, but with no fixed contracts and occupants can 'check-out' whenever they wish. Apartment hotels are flexible types of accommodation, instead of the rigid format of a hotel room an apartment hotel complex usually offers a complete fully fitted apartment. These complexes are usually custom built
History / Educational Influences Marina City, as a modernist urban solution, was possible by Bertrand Goldberg because of his formal architectural training as well as his early practice and interaction with key architects. Exposure to architectural, socioeconomic, and cultural context that shaped modernist architecture developed him as an architect. Influence began early on from his physics teacher, George Vaubel, which inspired him with a lifelong love for logic and “reasoning backwards” and finding