Architectural Styles
Metabolism
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1960-1973
- Modular design
- flowing, organic shapes
- mimic natural forms
- Buildings as living organism
- capable of growth & adaptation
- modular and flexible design
- urban issues
- adaptable structures
- infrastructure (transportation systems & utilities) as integral components
- multi-functional dynamic spaces
- high rise
- Japan
- influenced Asia & Africa
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- High-rise residential
- cultural
- community
- exhibition spaces
- Nakagin Capsule Tower Tokyo
- Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium
- Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center
- Megastructure Project [Theoretical]
- Yoyogi National Gymnasium Tokyo
- Tower of the Sun Osaka
- Edo-Tokyo Museum
- Kiyonori Kikutake’s projects
- Tatebayashi Civic Centr
- Miyakonojo Civic Hall
- Hotel Seiyo Ginza
- Hotel Sofitel Tokyo
- Kikutake Tower Shaped City
- Kenzo Tange’s Vision for Tokyo
- Urban master plan of Skopje
- Kyoto International Conference Center
- Yamanashi Press and Broadcaster Centre
- Hillside Terrace Tokyo
- Kikutake’s Expo Tower
- Osaka Expo 1970
- Kurokawa’s Toshiba-IHI Pavilion, Osaka Expo 1970
- Kuwait Embassy and Chancellery of Japan
Metabolism was explicitly about living, plug-in, replaceable architecture
- Capsule Hotels (Pure Metabolist Expression)
- Metabolist Megastructure Hotels
- Capsule Towers with Short-Stay Use
- Experimental Expo & Prototype Accommodation
- Contemporary Capsule Hotels in Original Metabolist Lineage
- Capsule Inn Osaka — Kisho Kurokawa
- Capsule Hotel Shinjuku
- Hotel Okura Tokyo
- Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center (conceptual hospitality crossover)
- Nakagin Capsule Tower — Kisho Kurokawa
- Expo ’70 lodging prototypes
- Metabolist pavilion-hotel hybrids
- Nine Hours Capsule Hotel
- Book and Bed Tokyo (conceptual descendant)
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