Metabolism asserted that architecture should be adaptable ... “As a floating capsule of civility the house embodied the dawn of a new era,” Florian Idenburg, a partner at the New York ...

as manifestations of the constantly evolving ideals of Metabolism in which Kurokawa, writing in Japan Architect about the Nakagin Capsule Tower upon its completion, reconceived “the house as a ...

Capsule House K will ensure that the spirit of the Metabolism architectural movement will live on in the woods of Nagano Prefecture. Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions.

Completed in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is a preeminent example of Japanese Metabolism, a post-war architectural movement ... 1973’s Capsule House K House in the Nagano Prefecture, was ...

Capsule House-K, a cottage in the Nagano Prefecture ... like the metabolism of living cells. The architectural movement "Metabolism," which is at the foundation of the structure, was led by ...

Japanese digital consultancy Gluon is combining data from laser scanning with 20,000 photographs to create an augmented reality model of the Nakagin Capsule ... value of the architecture designed ...

One sunny winter afternoon in 2019, I was in Tokyo on a reporting trip, wandering through the glitzy Ginza district with an American friend who happened to be in the city on vacation. We were ...

Since the early 1970s, Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule House K has been a worldwide marvel of Metabolist architecture. Now design aficionados and lovers of Japanese craftsmanship can get a closer look ...

When demolition crews in Tokyo began to pry apart the Nakagin Capsule Tower last spring, it felt like the end to one of architecture ... of the short-lived Metabolism movement of the 20th ...