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 ...

You don’t have to be a Tokyo architecture geek to recognise ... the only structure conveying the legacy of Metabolism into the present. Capsule House-K, Kurokawa’s own countryside villa ...

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 ...

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.

Ginza’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is a rare example of Metabolism, a post-war Japanese movement that applied organic biological growth to architectural ... that house 140 modules (or ‘capsules ...

It was a marked attempt to remove architecture ... The term Metabolism, coined by Kikutake, was a biological analogy – perhaps referential to Le Corbusier’s concepts of the house as a ...

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 ...

On Tokyo’s already futuristic skyline, the Nakagin Capsule ... architecture, the Nakagin was designed by Kisho Kurokawa and was completed in 1972. Kurokawa was a leading light in the ...

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 ...