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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, William O., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and biology--Japan--History--20th century.

Architecture and biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-6311-8

OCLC:

1108817198