Synopsis:
Winner of the 2015 Deutsches Architekturmuseum Book Award
Completed in the year 1972, Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower is one of the few visionary proposals realized by an avant-garde architectural movement called Metabolism. An experimental apartment complex designed with 140 removable capsules, this building in Tokyo embodies the future of urban living as envisioned by Kurokawa at that moment in postwar Japan. In recent years, the building has faced the threat of demolition to make way for a more conventional structure. In this first monograph, artist Noritaka Minami uses photography to document the current state of the capsules as a response to their potential disappearance.
About the Author:
Noritaka Minami is Assistant Professor of Photography at Loyola University Chicago. He has also taught at Harvard University, Wellesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, University of California Berkeley, and University of California, Irvine. Minami received his BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and his MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Exhibitions of his works have been held at UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Las Cienegas Projects, Griffin Museum of Photography, and Kana Kawanishi Gallery. He is a recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Julian Rose is a senior editor at Artforum and a founding principal of the award-winning design studio formlessfinder. Trained in both art history and architectural practice, he creates design work and scholarship that investigate historical and contemporary interchanges between art and architecture, focusing on problems of material, form, and tectonics. His architectural proposals have been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the MAXXI in Rome. His essays on both art and architecture have been featured in such journals as Domus, Log, Artforum, and October.
Ken Yoshida is currently an Assistant Professor in theGlobal Arts Studies Program at the University of California, Merced, where heteaches visual culture and art history.
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