Nakagin Capsule Tower

We will discuss, in this paper, the cross-cultural phenomenon of Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower—the archetype of metabolism in Japanese architecture, built in 1972. Kurokawa designed it as a living organism that conglomerates a number of flexible removable capsules into one single living ent...

The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic, Social, and Cultural Context

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