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Kisho Kurokawa : architect and associates
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ISBN: 186470019X Year: 2000 Publisher: Mulgrave The Images Publishing Group


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Grounding metabolism
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ISBN: 9781934510377 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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The design disciplines have always recognized the potential within a critical understanding of urban metabolism to shape spatial strategies, from Patrick Geddes's Valley Section to the megastructures of the Japanese Metabolists. Historically confined to the regional scale, today's generalized urbanization is characterized by an unprecedented complexity and planetary upscaling of metabolic relations. Most contemporary discussions of metabolism have failed to integrate formal, spatial, and material attributes. Technoscientific approaches have been limited to a performative interpretation of flows, while more theoretical attempts to interrogate the sociopolitical embeddedness of metabolic processes have largely ignored their formal spatial registration. Within this context, the design disciplines--fascinated by the fluidity of metabolic processes - have privileged notions of elasticity without regard for the often sclerotic quality of landscapes and infrastructures. This book aims to trace alternative, synthetic routes to design through a more elaborate understanding of the relation between metabolic models and concepts and the formal, physical, and material specificities of spatial structures across scales. This task will require addressing the planetary dimension of contemporary metabolic processes and critically examining the long lineage of discussions and approaches on metabolism.0.


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Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist movement : urban utopias of modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780415776608 9780415776592 0415776600 0415776597 9780203860304 0203860306 113528198X 1282572040 9786612572043 9781135281939 9781135281977 9781135281984 Year: 2010 Publisher: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge,

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Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the Metabolists' utopian concept of the city and investigates the design and political implications of their visionary planning in the postwar society. At the root of the group's urban utopias was a particular biotechical notion of the city as an organic process. It stood in opposition to the Modernist view of city design and led to such radical design concepts as marine civilization and artificial terrains, which embodied the metabolis

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