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2024-11-07
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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...
圖書標籤: 建築 日本 Rem_Koolhaas Metabolizm 庫哈斯 RemKoolhaas Architecture 建築理論
從此書可見,日本人經過二戰深痛打擊,奮發圖強,拼命現代化,在建築及城市規劃上不斷進取,最後融入西方主流曆史的一部分。(PS 庫哈斯和小漢斯倆人精力太旺盛瞭,平時主業那麼多,這種跨界跨文化的大厚本也能做齣來,看來人生瘋狂追求其熱愛事物纔是潛力驚人的源動力。)
評分想到很多
評分非常不錯的一本書,嚴肅又輕鬆
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。。。
評分關於一段偉大的曆史的偉大的書
Project Japan 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載