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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement : Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

ISBN: 9780415776608 | 0415776600
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 3/2/2010

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SummaryTable of Contents
Seven young Japanese architects and designers, pursuing a new approach to urbanism, founded an avant-garde group in 1960 and published its radical manifesto called Metabolism: The Proposals for New Urbanism. Numerous futuristic urban visions, along with experimental architectural practices, meant that the Metabolists became emblems of Japan's postwar cultural resurgence. At the root of the Metabolist urban utopias was a particular notion of the city as an organic process. It stood in opposition to the Modernist paradigm of urbanism and led to s... MORE
Illustration creditsp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Forewordp. xiii
Introduction: city as processp. 1
Metabolism 1960p. 16
Metabolist utopiasp. 69
The myth of Tokyo Bayp. 133
Structure and symbolp. 172
Expo '70p. 200
Epilogue: the future of the past and its futurep. 233
Bibliogr... MOREp. 250
Indexp. 263
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