[1ST AM ED] Metabolism in Architecture
First American edition of Kisho Kurokawa’s groundbreaking tome on the Metabolist movement in architecture, published by Westview Press in 1977. 208 pages, 8vo, hardcover with photographic dust jacket, replete with black-and-white images and with an introduction by Charles Jencks. Metabolism proposed a fusion of ideas about megastructures with those of organic biological growth, leading to mutable buildings composed of multiple living pods or cells. Kurokawa was a founder of the movement and one of its major practitioners. Projects discussed and illustrated include Kurokawa’s Toshiba Pavilion at Expo ‘70 and his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, both important contributions to architectural theory and praxis. Minor bumping to extremities and dj. Scarce.
First American edition of Kisho Kurokawa’s groundbreaking tome on the Metabolist movement in architecture, published by Westview Press in 1977. 208 pages, 8vo, hardcover with photographic dust jacket, replete with black-and-white images and with an introduction by Charles Jencks. Metabolism proposed a fusion of ideas about megastructures with those of organic biological growth, leading to mutable buildings composed of multiple living pods or cells. Kurokawa was a founder of the movement and one of its major practitioners. Projects discussed and illustrated include Kurokawa’s Toshiba Pavilion at Expo ‘70 and his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, both important contributions to architectural theory and praxis. Minor bumping to extremities and dj. Scarce.
First American edition of Kisho Kurokawa’s groundbreaking tome on the Metabolist movement in architecture, published by Westview Press in 1977. 208 pages, 8vo, hardcover with photographic dust jacket, replete with black-and-white images and with an introduction by Charles Jencks. Metabolism proposed a fusion of ideas about megastructures with those of organic biological growth, leading to mutable buildings composed of multiple living pods or cells. Kurokawa was a founder of the movement and one of its major practitioners. Projects discussed and illustrated include Kurokawa’s Toshiba Pavilion at Expo ‘70 and his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower, both important contributions to architectural theory and praxis. Minor bumping to extremities and dj. Scarce.
