Nakagin Capsule Tower : Japanese metabolist landmark on the edge of destruction.

Title & Author:

Nakagin Capsule Tower : Japanese metabolist landmark on the edge of destruction.

Publication:

Description:

1 videodisc (58 min., 35 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes:
Title from disc label.
Copyright date on title frames: 2011, Michael Blackwood Productions.
Produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, Inc ; producer and director, Michael Blackwood.
DVD.

Summary:

Visits residents of the Nakagin Capsule Tower and interviews them. They describe life in the tower and why they chose to leave there. Describes how the Tower is organized and what is the philosophy behind it. The architect, Kirsho Kurokawa explains how the parts of the Capsule are prefabricated and they meant to represent photo camera's lenses. Residents speak about the problems they face leaving the Tower. The building is deteriorating, but some architects think it needs to be looked at as a construction ahead of its time, and work of art. But the question of preservation is very lively and many think it should not be preserved just because it is an architectural monument when it loses its functionality.

Subject:

Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
Megastructures.
Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern History 20th century.
Metabolism (Groupe d'architectes japonais)
Villes totales.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Metabolism (movement)
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Japan

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
DVDs.
Optical disks.
documentary film.
Documentary films
History
Documentaires.

Added entries:

Blackwood, Michael.
Kurokawa, Kishō, 1934-2007.
Michael Blackwood Productions.

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 279011
Call No.: BIB 214836
Status: Available

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