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| Titre : | Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan |
| Auteurs : | Zhongjie Lin |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Routledge, 2010 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-415-77660-8 |
| Index. décimale : | 720.9 (Histoire et g├®ographie : pour les p├®riodes historiques, voir 722-724. Pour la g├®ographie, ajouter ├á 720.9 les notations de la Table 2) |
| Résumé : |
Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the MetabolistsÔÇÖ utopian concept of the city and investigates the design and political implications of their visionary planning in the postwar society. At the root of the groupÔÇÖs urban utopias was a particular biotechical notion of the city as an organic process. It stood in opposition to the Modernist view of city design and led to such radical design concepts as marine civilization and artificial terrains, which embodied the metabolistsÔÇÖ ideals of social change. Tracing the evolution of Metabolism from its inception at the 1960 World Design Conference to its spectacular swansong at the Osaka World Exposition in 1970, this book situates Metabolism in the context of JapanÔÇÖs mass urban reconstruction, economic miracle, and socio-political reorientation. This new study will interest architectural and urban historians, architects and all those interested in avant-garde design and Japanese architecture. |
