Film evening focused on modern and contemporary Japanese architecture

Nakagin Capsule Tower - Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction (58 min, Japanese version / English subtitles)

The documentary includes interviews with residents of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, an architectural historian, a former Kurokawa office architect, Kurokawa’s son, and leading architects Arata Isozaki and Toyo Ito. It contains historic footage of the fabrication of the capsules and their installation on the tower infrastructure.

Kisho Kurokawa - From Metabolism to Symbiosis (58 min, English version / Czech subtitles)
A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of oriental forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. This documentary follows him to his major accomplishments in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York. Kurokawa died in 2007.

Japan, 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects (56 min, English version)
Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese traditions with modern materials and technology.