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Kurokawa ) (b. April 8, 1934) is a famous Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolism Movement.

He was born in Nagoya, Aichi in 1934. He studied at Kyoto University, graduating with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Architecture in 1957. He continued his studies at Tokyo University School of Architecture under the guidance of Tange Kenzo, achieving a master's degree in 1959 and a doctoral degree in 1964.

Together with some colleagues, he founded the Metabolism Movement in 1960; its members were known as i. It was a radical Japanese avant-garde movement pursuing the merging and recycling of architecture s around an Asian philosophy. The movement was very successful, peaking when its members received praise for the Takara Beautillion at the Osaka World Expo 1970. However, the group broke up shortly thereafter.

Kurokawa has a daughter from his first marriage, who works in the area of landscape architecture. His second marriage is to i (in Japanese, family name first: 若尾文子), an actress with some notable films in the 1950s and 1960s. Kurokawa's younger brother works in industrial design, but has also cooperated with Kurokawa on some architecture projects.

Kurokawa is the founder and President of i, established on 8 April 1962. The company has its head office in Tokyo, and branch offices in Osaka, Nagoya, Kazakhstan, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. The company is registered with the Japanese Government as a iDesign and Master Plan of Kazakhstan's New Capital (Astana, Kazakhstan, delayed due to budget problems)