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

Informationen zum Autor Zhongjie Lin is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Zusammenfassung Metabolism profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book investigates the Metabolists' utopian projects of the city, which often envisioned the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future and proposed three-dimensional urban forms on an unprecedented scale - often known as megastructure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Arata Isozaki Introduction: City as Process 1. Metabolism 1960 2. Metabolist Utopias 3. The Myth of Tokyo Bay 4. Structure and Symbol 5. Expo '70 and the Disillusion of the Metabolist Utopias 6. Epilogue: Re-accessing the Future of the Past

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• Authors: Zhongjie Lin, Zhongjie (Associate Professor Lin, Zhongjie (University of North Carolina Lin, Lin Zhongjie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2010
• EAN: 9780415776592
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77659-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Japan, Society & culture: general, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Regional Studies, History of Architecture, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects