Project Japan - Dissecting A Japanese Avant-Garde Architectural Theory

摘要

In japan in the 1960s, future-oriented movements such as the Metabolism movement launched by Kisho Kurokawa and others, and Kenzo Tange's A Plan for Tokyo 1960, soon engulfed both architects and politicians and set its gaze on architecture, cities, and the nation. Rem Koolhaas, a major controversialist in the world of contemporary architecture, and Hans Ulrich Obrist have written a book called Project Japan: Metabolism Talks... (Japanese edition published by Heibonsha) that takes a close look at the movement based on his interviews of the surviving members. Just opening the voluminous 700-page book evokes the atmosphere of that bygone age.