Research Catalog

Title

Project Japan : metabolism talks-- / Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist ; editors: Kayoko Ota with James Westcott, AMO ; [translators, Thomas Daniell, Wayne Lammers, Hiroshi Watanabe].

Author

Koolhaas, Rem.

Publication

Köln ; London : TASCHEN GmbH, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• 太田, 佳代子
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich.
• Ota, Kayoko.
• Westcott, James, 1979-
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture. AMO.

Description

719 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs ... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think ... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state ... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture--Metabolism--that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land ... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men ..."--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

OMA AMO, project Japan, metabolism talks--

Subjects

• Architecture
• Japan
• Architecture > Japan
• Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
• Architects > Japan

Note

• "Interviews with Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Takako Tange, Noritaka Tange, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Masato Otaka AND Akira Asada, Shuhei Aida, Hiroshi Hara, Shinya Izumi, Charles Jencks, Koji Kamiya, Hidetoshi Kato, Mamoru Kawaguchi, Takashi Onishi, Sachio Otani, Akira Tamura, Shomei Tomatsu, Hajime Yatsuka, with postscript by Toyo Ito"--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Contents

Movement (1) / Rem Koolhaas -- Movement (2) / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Arata Isozaki -- Tabula Rasa -- Toshiko Kato -- Tange Lab -- Kiyonori Kikutake -- Birth of a movement -- Metabolism 1960 -- Noboru Kawazoe -- Tokyo Bay -- Fumihiko Maki -- On the land, on the sea, in the air -- Kisho Kurokawa -- Media Architects -- Kenji Ekuan -- Expo '70 -- Takako Tange, Noritaka Tange -- Expansion/exile -- Atsushi Shimokobe -- Project Japan -- Postscript: Toyo Ito -- Project Japan 1940-1985: timeline.

Call Number

JQE 18-702

ISBN

• 9783836525084
• 3836525089

LCCN

2014498138

OCLC

762964032

Author

Koolhaas, Rem.

Title

Project Japan : metabolism talks-- / Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist ; editors: Kayoko Ota with James Westcott, AMO ; [translators, Thomas Daniell, Wayne Lammers, Hiroshi Watanabe].

Imprint

Köln ; London : TASCHEN GmbH, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English.

Added Author

Obrist, Hans Ulrich.

Alternate Script for Added Author

太田, 佳代子

Added Author

Ota, Kayoko.

Westcott, James, 1979- editor.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture. AMO.

Research Call Number

JQE 18-702