Metabolist Architecture

メタボリズム建築 / 1960s–1970s / Style / Japanese Architecture Movements

Conceives city and building as one vast system that can grow, exchange and renew itself like an organism.

Exchangeable capsules / Megastructures / Growing cities / Organic networks

Metabolist Architecture — 中銀カプセルタワービル（CC BY-SA 3.0）Metabolist Architecture — 中銀カプセルタワーのカプセル群（CC BY-SA 4.0）Metabolist Architecture — 丹下健三 静岡新聞・静岡放送東京支社ビル（CC BY 3.0）
中銀カプセルタワービル（CC BY-SA 3.0） ／ 中銀カプセルタワーのカプセル群（CC BY-SA 4.0） ／ 丹下健三 静岡新聞・静岡放送東京支社ビル（CC BY 3.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs space and gaze
Material
Verify materials specific to region, period and process
Caution
Don't quote only the capsule shape. Grasp the systems thinking about growth and urban renewal.
Further study
Kenzō Tange / Kisho Kurokawa / Fumihiko Maki

Related entries

Source: MoMA — Metabolist architecture

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