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Project Japan : metabolism talks ... / Rem Koolhaas; Hans Ulrich Obrist. Ed.: Kayoko Ota ... Design: Irma Boom

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Köln : Taschen, 2011Description: 719 S. : überw. Ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783836525084
  • 9783836525084
Other title:
  • Parallelt.: Purojekuto Japan : metaborizumu wa kataru
  • Parallelt.: プロジェクト・ジャパンメタボリズムは語る・・・
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720
  • 720
RVK: RVK: ZH 4748 | MS 8020 | LO 89870 | ZH 4963LOC classification:
  • NA1555.5.M57
Contents:
Movement (1) / Rem KoolhaasMovement (2) / Hans Ulrich Obrist
Arata Isozaki ; Tabula Rasa ; Toshiko Kato ; Tange Lab ; Kiyonori Kikutake ; Birth of a movement ; Metabolism 1960 ; Noboru Kawazoe ; Tokyo Bay ; Fumihiko Maki ; On the land, on the sea, in the air ; Kisho Kurokawa ; Media Architects ; Kenji Ekuan ; Expo '70 ; Takako Tange, Noritaka Tange ; Expansion/exile ; Atsushi Shimokobe ; Project Japam ; Postscript: Toyo Ito ; Project Japan 1940-1985: timeline.
Summary: "Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs ... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think ... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state ... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture--Metabolism--that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land ... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men ..."--Publisher's descriptionCall number: Grundsignatur: 2012 A 3812PPN: PPN: 638997267
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