Metabolist Movement. Interior of one of the capsules in the Nakagin Capsule Tower Metabolism メタボリズム was a post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
It had its first international exposure during CIAM's 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students from Kenzo Tange's MIT studio. During the preparation for the 1960 Tōkyō World Design Conference a group of talented young architects and designers, including Kiyonori Kikutake, Kisho Kurokawa and Fumihiko Maki prepared the publication of the Metabolism manifesto. Edge.