Book Review
1972
By Noritaka Minami
Reviewed by Blake Andrews
As buildings go, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has an impressive pedigree. Designed in 1972 by renowned Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, and constructed quickly in a matter of weeks, Nagakin is the icon of Metabolism, the post-war Japanese Utopian architecture movement based on modular form, flexible use, and organic growth.
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1972. By Noritaka Minami.
Kehrer Verlag, 2015.
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1972
Reviewed by Blake Andrews
1972
Photographs by Noritaka Minami. Texts by Noritaka Minami, Julian Rose, Ken Yoshida.
Kehrer Verlag, 2015. In English. 92 pp., 52 color illustrations, 9½x11".
As buildings go, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has an impressive pedigree. Designed in 1972 by renowned Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, and constructed quickly in a matter of weeks, Nagakin is the icon of Metabolism, the post-war Japanese Utopian architecture movement based on modular form, flexible use, and organic growth. When it was built, the Tower was conceived as the vanguard of similar futuristic buildings that would soon spread across Japan, ushering in a space age of clean, capsule living.