Metabolism : the city of the future : dreams and visions of reconstruction in postwar and present-day Japan / editing, Hirose Mami, Sasaki Hitomi [et al.]
Author(s): Mori Art Museum
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Metabolism : the city of the future : dreams and visions of reconstruction in postwar and present-day Japan
- Publisher
- Tokyo : Mori Art Museum, 2011
- Collation
- 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans
30 cm - Summary
- First presented as a manifesto in the 1960s in Japan, "Metabolism" is a theory of architecture contending that "buildings and cities should be designed and developed in the same continuous way that the material substance of a natural organism is produced." From the time of Japan's postwar redevelopment to its period of rapid economic growth, the theory gave birth to grand visions of future cities, encouraged the realization of much experimental architecture, and also provided the foundation on which many of Japan's contemporary world-renowned architects and designers could build their careers. It is the most widely known modern architecture theory to have emerged from Japan. This exhibition is the first ever to pose the question of what significance Metabolism holds today. It draws on various documents and models to explore the thoughts and work of Tange Kenzo, which set the scene for the emergence of Metabolism, and the activities of the Metabolist architects and others during the 1960s up until Osaka's Expo '70, which in many ways was a showcase for the theory. It also represents an important opportunity to think about the necessity of archiving and preserving distinguished historical documents and records related to the movement.
- ISBN
- 9784904700259
- Dewey Class
- 720.952
- Contents
- Metabolism's current significance, contribution to diaster recovery, and future / Nanjo Fumio -- The structure of this exhibition : the Metabolism nexus' role in overcoming modernity / Yatsuka Hajime -- A genealogy of Tange's modernist city / Kuan Seng -- Cold climate housing research and the Syowa station building in Antarctica : Asada Takashi and the beginnings of capsule architecture / Toyokawa Saikaku -- Kawazoe Nonoru : Architecture Journal Shinkenchiku and dento ronso (the tradition discourse) as a breach to a Japanese tragedy / Nakamori Yasufumi -- The theory of Kikutake Kiyonori : a city on the ocean / Imamura Souhei -- Will the future suddenly arrive? / Kurokawa Kisho -- Kurokawa Kisho : a portrait of an architect in the age of mass media / Nango Yoshikazu -- Maki Fumihiko : city and crowd / Matsushita Kiwa -- New forms of community : visions of collective housing pursued by Masato Otaka and Sachio Otani / Yamana Yoshiyuki -- Ruptures in concepts of urbanity : as discerned in urban projects of the 1960s / Hino Naohiko -- Expo '70 : urban infrastructure in information society / Kikuchi Makoto -- Thinking through the object=social metamorphose : the world of Ekuan Kenji / Kaneko Yusuke -- Awazu Kiyoshi's involvement in the metabolist movement / Oyobe Katsuhito -- "Environment" as relationship : color, space and environment / Kataoka Mami -- The architects who caught the global wave / Ota Kayoko.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Metabolism in architecture (Movement) -- Exhibitions - BRN
- 9806
Notes
- Catalog of an exhibition held Sept. 17, 2011-Jan. 15, 2012 at Mori Art Museum.
- Originally published in Japanese by Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
- Exhibition organized by Mori Art Museum, UIA2011 Tokyo Japan Organizing Board, and Nikkei, Inc.
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