October 15, 2007

Metabolism is dead!

Japanese architect, Kisho Kurokawa passed away last week at the age of 73. Kurokawa was a leading proponent of the Metabolists - a group of architects following the modernists traditions of CIAM and Team X with aims to construct (Japanese) cities with large scale and immensely flexible structures that responded to their balooning population growth

1 comment:

Unknown said...

oh no! what ever happened to this building, did they pull it down? if not they're gonna now

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