Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Summary

This new edition expands Zhongjie Lin’s pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms which continue to inspire experiments in architecture, city design, and conservation.

Product details

• Authors: Zhongjie (University of North Carolina Lin, Zhongjie Lin, Lin Zhongjie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
• EAN: 9781032149424
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214942-4
• Pages: 301
• Subjects: Japan, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, History of Architecture, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Individual architects and architectural firms, Theory of architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Spatial Morphology, environmental adaptation design, architectural utopianism, avant-garde city planning, urban megastructures, metabolist urban design theory, postwar Japanese modernism