The Work of Kisho Kurokawa: Capsule, metabolism, spaceframe, metamorphose.

KUROKAWA, Kisho. 
The Work of Kisho Kurokawa: Capsule, metabolism, spaceframe, metamorphose. 
First edition. Folio. Vinyl boards in printed card slipcase. With a poster and vinyl record entitled 'Music for Living' laid inside. 94pp. Colour and b&w plates. Text in English and Japanese. 
A near fine copy. 

A seminal work by Kurokawa published in the same year as the Osaka expo '70. Kurokawa was a pioneer of the Japanese Metabolist Movement in architecture, where a city is viewed as a living organism and that architecture in turn must reflect this state as an evolving entity constantly in flux.  This multi-media publication acts as a visual scrapbook with dynamic graphics and imagery showing constructions of the Expo pavilions. In addition a graphic poster and a vinyl record with 'Music for Living' reflects Kurokawa's radical holistic approach. Kurokawa's work would later be influential to the practice of Archigram as well as geodesic architecture.