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The Metabolist Imagination
Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction
Taschenbuch von William O. Gardner
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Sakyão, 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"--
"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 Sakyão, 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"--
Über den Autor

William O. Gardner is professor of Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College. He is author of Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. City Visions: Metabolism and Science Fiction

2. Ruined Cities: Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyô

3. Planetary Cities: Komatsu Sakyô’s Disaster Fiction

4. Future City: The 1970 Osaka Expo

5. Liquid Cities: The Technopolis from Expo to Cyberpunk

6. Metabolist Echoes: Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji

Notes

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781517906245
ISBN-10: 1517906245
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardner, William O.
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 215 x 143 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: William O. Gardner
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,295 kg
preigu-id: 118346089
Über den Autor

William O. Gardner is professor of Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College. He is author of Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. City Visions: Metabolism and Science Fiction

2. Ruined Cities: Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyô

3. Planetary Cities: Komatsu Sakyô’s Disaster Fiction

4. Future City: The 1970 Osaka Expo

5. Liquid Cities: The Technopolis from Expo to Cyberpunk

6. Metabolist Echoes: Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji

Notes

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 224
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781517906245
ISBN-10: 1517906245
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardner, William O.
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 215 x 143 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: William O. Gardner
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,295 kg
preigu-id: 118346089
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