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Three japanese architects = : Drei japanische Architekten : Mayekawa, Tange, Sakakura
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Year: 1968 Publisher: Teufen : Verlag Arthur Niggli AG,

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A+U 612 : Urban science and new design tools
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ISBN: 9784900212688 4900212687 Year: 2021 Publisher: Tokyo A+U


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Kenzo Tange : architecture for the world
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ISBN: 9783037783108 3037783109 Year: 2012 Publisher: Baden London Lars Müller Springer [distributor]


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Kenzo Tange
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ISBN: 3760881076 9783760881072 Year: 1978 Publisher: Zürich Verlag für Architektur Artemis


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Les musées.
Year: 1999 Publisher: Monaco : Sam MDO,


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Digesting metabolism : artificial land in Japan 1954-2202
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ISBN: 9783775746427 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin Hatje Cantz

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How can housing better meet people’s diverse and changing needs? Moving away from the focus on capsule architecture that dominates so many studies of Japan’s Metabolist architects, Digesting Metabolism investigates the impact on Japanese housing of Le Corbusier’s idea of “artificial land,” perhaps architecture’s most famous concept that the fewest have heard of. Long buried by the term “megastructure” that it inspired, artificial land joins the individual and collective, envisioning housing as stacked platforms of plots for building freestanding homes of all variety. This book explores in detail eleven Japanese projects that translate this dream of durability combined with flexibility into built reality, illuminating its appeal for a nation whose existing land—from both earthquakes and cost—is highly unstable. First introduced to Japan in 1954 by Le Corbusier’s protégé, Takamasa Yosizaka, artificial land is essential to the Metabolists who debuted in Tokyo in 1960, with it sparking their desire to add “a time factor into city planning.” Yet artificial land has had a hold on Japan’s metabolic imagination well beyond the ‘60s, promising domestic satisfaction and environmental resilience from the postwar period to today’s government policies. Digesting Metabolism uncovers this unique Japanese history and its possible future, finding examples of infrastructure, adaptation, and dweller control that challenge commodified models of housing around the world.


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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist movement : urban utopias of modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780415776608 9780415776592 0415776600 0415776597 9780203860304 0203860306 113528198X 1282572040 9786612572043 9781135281939 9781135281977 9781135281984 Year: 2010 Publisher: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge,

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Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the Metabolists' 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 group's 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 metabolis


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L'architecture du futur au Japon : utopie et métabolisme = Architecture of the future in Japan : utopia and metabolism = Nihon no mirai no kenchiku : yūtopia metaborisu / textes, Benoît Jacquet ; photographies, Jérémie Souteyrat ; interview de Kurokawa Kishō par Fujimori Terunobu.
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ISBN: 9782353481132 2353481132 Year: 2020 Publisher: Poitiers : Le Lézard Noir,

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