Capsule A1305 from the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building, Tokyo, Japan
1970 · Steel, wood, paint, plastics, cloth, polyurethane, glass, ceramic, and electronics
100 3/8 × 106 5/16 × 166 9/16" (255 × 270 × 423 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Kisho Kurokawa
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Transformations in Modern Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Visionary Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Kisho Kurokawa was a Japanese architect and theorist whose designs synthesized organic forms with technological innovation, pioneering what he termed the Metabolism movement in the 1960s. His practice ranged from residential capsule architecture and civic structures to conceptual urban proposals that rejected rigid functionalism in favor of adaptability and renewal. Kurokawa's work combined biomimetic principles, prefabrication, and philosophical inquiry into the relationship between human habitation and natural systems. His influence on postwar Japanese architecture and design theory extended globally through both built projects and extensive writings on urbanism and temporality.
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