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Nakagin Capsule Tower : Japanese metabolist landmark on the edge of destruction; a film by Rima Yamazaki / produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, Inc ; producer and director, Michael Blackwood.
LIBRA DVD NA1559.K32 N35 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metabolism in architecture (Movement).
- Megastructures.
- Architecture--Japan--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Modern.
- History.
- Japan.
- Architecture, Modern--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Michael Blackwood Productions, 2010.
- Language Note:
- Japanese, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Participants: Nobuo Abe, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Toru Kawamura, Mikio Kurokawa ; architect, Kirsho Kurokawa.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- Copyright date on title frames: 2010, Michael Blackwood Productions.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 733403189
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