By Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Having wandered the ruins of Hiroshima, Tokyo and other Japanese cities after WW II, The Metabolists – four architects, a critic, an industrial designer and a graphic designer – showed with the launch of their manifesto Metabolism 1960 how they would employ biological systems (aided by Japan's massive advances in technology) as inspiration for buildings and cities that could change and adapt to the vicissitudes of modern life. Units could be added or removed from buildings like Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule Tower in Toky o as required; buildings themselves could be added or removed from cities at will in the cell-like master-plans of Fumihiko Maki .
Project Japan features a series of vivid, empathetic conversations, replete with surprising connections and occasional clashes between Koolhaas and Obrist and their subjects. The story that unfolds is illuminated, contradicted and validated by commentaries from a broad range their forebearers, associates, critics, and progeny, including Toyo Ito and Charles Jencks.
Interspersed with the interviews and commentary are hundreds of never-before-seen images : master-plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts and astonishing sci-fi urban visions. Presented in a clear chronology from the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s; a devastated Japan after the war; to the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference; to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect; to the apotheosis of the movement at Expo '70 in Osaka.
Koolhaas and Obrist unearth a history that casts new light on the key issues that both enervate and motivate architecture today: celebrity and seriousness, sustainability and monumentality, globalization, government participation (and abdication), and the necessity for architecture to reach beyond its traditional boundaries in order to embrace the future.
發表於2024-06-08
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這本書Koolhass花瞭很長時間纔完成,有可能是陣綫拉得太長,好像至今為止尚未得到太多的關注,我關注瞭,因為他是是這麼研究曆史和亞洲文化的,很有趣,有啓發。 另外,新陳代謝運動和這些日本建築師在建築學發展中的地位如何,而又做齣瞭什麼貢獻,都值得關注一下,當然這事個...
評分新陳代謝時代是被一群可怕的野心傢駕馭的。丹下健三,槙文彥,菊竹清訓等等等等,這些名字想一想甚至會讓人有種高不可攀的感覺。建築在他們的手中時如機械驅動著城市,時如止水安撫人心。不朽的結構經過精巧的設計就像被給與瞭生命一樣,可以增長和萎縮。 在這群執著的傢夥中...
評分新陳代謝時代是被一群可怕的野心傢駕馭的。丹下健三,槙文彥,菊竹清訓等等等等,這些名字想一想甚至會讓人有種高不可攀的感覺。建築在他們的手中時如機械驅動著城市,時如止水安撫人心。不朽的結構經過精巧的設計就像被給與瞭生命一樣,可以增長和萎縮。 在這群執著的傢夥中...
評分The Master of Bigness “大”之大師 by Martin Filler 1. With his prodigious gift for invention, shrewd understanding of communication techniques, and contagiously optimistic conviction that modern architecture and urban design still possess enormous untap...
評分這本書Koolhass花瞭很長時間纔完成,有可能是陣綫拉得太長,好像至今為止尚未得到太多的關注,我關注瞭,因為他是是這麼研究曆史和亞洲文化的,很有趣,有啓發。 另外,新陳代謝運動和這些日本建築師在建築學發展中的地位如何,而又做齣瞭什麼貢獻,都值得關注一下,當然這事個...
圖書標籤: 建築 日本 Rem_Koolhaas Metabolizm 庫哈斯 RemKoolhaas Architecture 建築理論
安騰書屋是用生命在做盜版,翻譯沒有想象中的爛,且認認真真排瞭版。看完中國特色版雙語盜版,打算買本正版支持一下,此書值得收藏並一讀再讀。
評分就看瞭一點 用英文寫的日本新陳代謝真是纍感不愛呢。。。
評分over this years long interviews of those still alive members of metabolism, Rem presented us a very clear image of this great movement!!
評分此書甚好。老庫果然還是更適閤弄弄理論和忽悠。。
評分over this years long interviews of those still alive members of metabolism, Rem presented us a very clear image of this great movement!!
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