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Digesting Metabolism

Artificial Land in Japan 1954-2202, Architektur

Erschienen am 08.08.2022, Auflage: 1/2022
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ISBN/EAN: 9783775746427
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 336 S., 257 Fotos
Format (T/L/B): 2.9 x 24 x 17 cm
Einband: Paperback

Beschreibung

How can housing better meet peoples diverse and changing needs? Moving away from the focus on capsule architecture that dominates so many studies of Japans Metabolist architects, Digesting Metabolism investigates the impact on Japanese housing of Le Corbusiers idea of artificial land, perhaps architectures most famous concept that the fewest have heard of. Long buried by the term megastructure that it inspired, artificial land joins the individual and collective, envisioning housing as stacked platforms of plots for building freestanding homes of all variety. This book explores in detail eleven Japanese projects that translate this dream of durability combined with flexibility into built reality, illuminating its appeal for a nation whose existing landfrom both earthquakes and costis highly unstable. First introduced to Japan in 1954 by Le Corbusiers protégé, Takamasa Yosizaka, artificial land is essential to the Metabolists who debuted in Tokyo in 1960, with it sparking their desire to add a time factor into city planning. Yet artificial land has had a hold on Japans metabolic imagination well beyond the 60s, promising domestic satisfaction and environmental resilience from the postwar period to todays government policies. Digesting Metabolism uncovers this unique Japanese history and its possible future, finding examples of infrastructure, adaptation, and dweller control that challenge commodified models of housing around the world.  CASEY MACK (*1973) is an architect and the director of Brooklyn-based Popular Architecture, an office devoted to simplicity and innovation in design across multiple scales. His work has been published in Harvard Design Magazine, OASE, The Avery Review, and Domus China.