The metabolist imagination : visions of the city in postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction /

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"This manuscript examines the relationship between architecture, urban design, and science fiction in postwar Japan, focusing on Metabolism, an avant-garde architectural movement formed in 1960 and influenced by the science fiction of Komatsu Sakyô, who collaborated with Metabolist architects...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gardner, William O., 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
1900-1999
Architecture and biology > Japan > History > 20th century.
Visionary architecture > Japan.
Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
Architecture and literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Science fiction, Japanese > History and criticism.
Architecture et biologie > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Architecture visionnaire > Japon.
Metabolism (Groupe d'architectes japonais)
Architecture et littérature.
Futur dans la littérature.
Metabolism (movement)
ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
Architecture and literature
Architecture and biology
Future, The, in literature
Science fiction, Japanese
Visionary architecture
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • City visions : metabolism and science viction
  • Ruined cities : Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyō
  • Planetary cities : Komatsu Sakyō's disaster fiction
  • Future city : the 1970 Osaka Expo
  • Liquid cities : the technopolis from Expo to cyberpunk
  • Metabolist echoes : Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji.

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