The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has acquired one capsule from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, just over a year after its demolition began. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa, the building, which became the poster child of Metabolism, was completed in Ginza, Tokyo in 1972. As AN covered in a five-part series last summer, the tower fell into disrepair over the years, and after years of speculation it was determined it could not be preserved, and was finally set for demolition.
Based on ideas that architecture can structure itself on a cellular model, with component parts of a given structure being adaptable, modular, and
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