Nakagin Capsule Tower : Japanese metabolist landmark on the edge of destruction.

Metabolism is the first Japanese architecture movement after the World War II, manifested in 1960 by Noboru Kawazoe, architecture critic, and the five architects, Kiyoshi Awazu, Kiyonori Kikutake, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, and Masato Otaka. They envisioned a new direction for future Japanese ar...

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Corporate Author: Kanopy (Firm)
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Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
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