The Japanese Architects Who Treated Buildings like Living Organisms www.artsy.net

His Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) has become a tourist destination in Tokyo.
The architect created a 14-story-high central core for the building, then plugged in 140 individual capsules which had been transported in shipping containers.
While his designs offered novelty, they also referenced traditional Japanese culture—each tower unit has the same dimensions as a traditional tea ceremony room.
The following decade, Metabolist architects abandoned their own manifesto to make museums, government offices, stadiums, and other designs that weren’t based on the body or regeneration.
If Metabolism didn’t necessarily succeed, according to Schalk, we can study the movement to understand what kinds of sustainable projects might work in the future.