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Beyond Utopia Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia 1st Edition by Agnes Nyilas ISBN 9781138056022 1138056022

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Author(s): Agnes Nyilas

ISBN(s): 9781138056022, 1138056022

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 8.54 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1138056022
ISBN 13: 9781138056022
Author: Agnes Nyilas

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding, Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely utopian, the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a uniquely amalgam genre: the myth camouflaged as utopia. Although its Megastructure seemingly describes a desirable future condition as utopia does, it also comprises certain cultural images rooted in the collective (un)conscious of Japanese people, in accordance with the general interpretation of myth. The primary narrative of Beyond Utopia thus follows the gradual unfolding of the myth-like characteristics of its Megastructure. Myth is dealt here as an interdisciplinary subject in line with contemporary myth theories. After expounding the mechanism underlying the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of the myth), Part I discovers the formal characteristics of the Megastructure of Metabolism to give a hint of the real intention behind it. Based on this, Part II is a reexamination of their design methods, which aims to clarify the function of the myth and to suggest the meaning behind it. Finally, Part III deals with the subject matter of the myth by disclosing the meaning unfolding in the story, and suggests a new reading of Metabolism urban theory: as an attempt to reconsider the traditional Japanese space concept.

Beyond Utopia Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I The Utopia of Megastructure—The ‘Myth’ Camouflaged

Introduction to Part I

On Megastructure Approaches

On the Metabolism Movement

Objectives of Analysis

Scale and Method of Analysis

Organization of Part I

1 Megastructure Proposals by Kiyonori Kikutake

‘Vertical Communities’

Typology of ‘Vertical Communities’ and the Formal Structure of Each Type

Summary: Comparison Among the Types

‘Marine City’ Projects

Structural Mechanism of ‘Floating Platform’

Analysis of ‘Marine City’ Projects

Interrelations Among ‘Marine City’ Projects

Summary: Comparison Among ‘Marine City’ Projects

2 Megastructure Proposals by Kenzo Tange

MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

Design Concept of MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

Analysis of MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

The Spatial Characteristics of MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

Analysis of the Supposed Ancestors of MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

Summary: Comparison Between MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959 and Its Supposed Ancestors

A Plan for Tokyo, 1960

‘Civic Axis’ and ‘Cross-Axis’

Linear-Parallel Systems of Roads

Administration Buildings and Residential Blocks

Comparison to The First National Capital Region Development Plan, 1958

Summary: The Formal Characteristics of A Plan for Tokyo, 1960

3 Summary: The Design Method of the Megastructure in Metabolism

The Characteristics of Kikutake’s Megastructure

‘Vertical Communities’

‘Marine City’ Projects

Comparison Between ‘Vertical Communities’ and ‘Marine City’ Projects

The Characteristics of Tange’s Megastructure

MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

A Plan for Tokyo, 1960

Comparison Between MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959 and A Plan for Tokyo, 1960

Comparison Between Kikutake’s and Tange’s Design Methods

PART II The Function of the ‘Myth’—City as ‘Living System’

Introduction to Part II

Biological Analogy in Architecture

The Theory of ‘Living Systems’

‘Living Architecture’ Theory

Organization of Part II

4 Properties of ‘Living Systems’ in Kikutake’s and Tange’s Megastructures

‘Vertical Communities’

‘Marine City’ Projects

MIT Boston Harbor Project, 1959

A Plan for Tokyo, 1960

5 Properties of ‘Living Systems’ in Kurokawa’s Megastructures

6 Properties of ‘Living Systems’ in Kawazoe’s Discourse

7 Summary: The Metaphor of ‘City as Living System’ in the Megastructure of Metabolism

PART III The Subject Matter of the ‘Myth’—Creative Tradition

8 “Overcoming Modernity”

9 The ‘Tradition Debate’ in Architecture

10 The Traditional Japanese Conception of Urban Space

11 Denouement: Reinterpretation of Tradition Through the Megastructure of Metabolism

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