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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, William O., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Visionary architecture.
Science fiction, Japanese.
Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
Future, The, in literature.
Architecture and biology.
Architecture and literature.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
Metabolism (movement)
Futur dans la litterature.
Architecture et litterature.
Metabolism (Groupe d'architectes japonais)
Architecture visionnaire > Japon.
Architecture et biologie > Japon > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Science fiction, Japanese > History and criticism.
Visionary architecture > Japan.
Architecture and biology > Japan > History > 20th century.
Japan.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. By envisioning both utopian and apocalyptic (sci-fi) futures, Metabolist architects imagined large-scale megastructures based on biological concepts"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9781452963112

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