Zhongjie lins book reminds its readers that not too long ago this was very different. It had its first international exposure during ciams 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students from kenzo tanges mit studio during the preparation for the 1960 tokyo world design. Japanese metabolism movement, research paper by paula pecina. Anyone can pick up this book and get wrapped up in its illustrations and diagrams. The metabolists had the ambition to create a new japanese society through technoutopian city planning. Most of the data in the report is provided by books and articles. It had its first international exposure during ciams 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students from kenzo tanges mit studio. The word metabolism describes the process of maintaining living cells.
It was combining modernism with traditional japanese architecture, the tatami. The interviews with metabolist architects were great, and managed to not only record the important history and facts about metabolist architecture, but also gave insight into the personal lives, career development, and group dynamic of these japanese architects who. Metabolist architecture metabolism was a postwar japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. At the 1960 world design conference in tokyo, the old european ideas about static urbanism were challenged by a group of young japanese architects. Metabolism of identity architecture, landscape, urban. Designed by kisho kurokawa, the nakagin capsule tower in ginza, tokyo is arguably metabolism s most iconic creation.
Tange kenzo, who thought of architecture on the scale of cities, had a particularly strong influence on the birth of metabolism. If its a topic of minimalism, microliving, or have a great interest to japanese architecture, this is the perfect book. The architectural style in japan has been subject to changes due to catastrophes that occurred there, the most obvious is the atomic blasts on hiroshima and. Two thousand copies of the 90 page book were printed and were sold for. The main concern was to rebuild the future cities of japan as a social revolt. The selforganizing city and the architecture of metabolism mdpi. Theory of design, metabolism free download as pdf file. From the family tree developed by michael franklin ross, aia in this book the five. The exhibition is organized in four sections, plus the metabolism lounge. Metabolism is a modern architecture movement originating in japan and most influential in the 1960strending roughly from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Metabolism designs in japan the best way to fully realize the metabolism concept is to look at a few of the structures that were born from the movement. Pdf the metabolist movement, with its radical and visionary urban and. Beside its influence on the japanese architectural community, metabolism had a. The proposals of the japanese metabolistsa group of architects.