Performance

The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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At MoMA Exhibitions, *The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower* traces the arc of Kisho Kurokawa’s 1970s Tokyo landmark, built for a future of plug-in, replaceable living units and later undone by time, policy, and maintenance reality. Using archival material and close attention to the building’s afterlife, the presentation follows the tower from Metabolist manifesto to contested relic and demolition. Shown in New York, it places a vanished piece of Japanese architecture into the city’s ongoing debates about preservation and housing. The work’s quiet conclusion is pointed: modular utopias age like everything else.