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

"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 Sakyo?, w

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Main Authors: Gardner, William O., 1969-
Published: University of Minnesota Press,
Publisher Address: Minneapolis :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Architecture and biology > Japan > History > 20th century.
Visionary architecture > Japan.
Metabolism in architecture (Movement)
Architecture and literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Science fiction, Japanese > History and criticism.
Architecture and biology.
Science fiction, Japanese.
Visionary architecture.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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 Sakyo?, w
Carrier Form: viii, 223 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.
ISBN: 9781517906245 (paperback) :
1517906245 (paperback)
9781517906238 (hardcover)
1517906237 (hardcover)
9781452963129 (electronic book)
1452963126 (electronic book)
Index Number: NA2543
CLC: TU-863.13
Call Number: TU-863.13/G228
Contents: City visions : metabolism and science viction -- Ruined cities : Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyo? -- Planetary cities : Komatsu Sakyo?'s disaster fiction -- Future city : the 1970 Osaka Expo -- Liquid cities : the technopolis from Expo to cyberpunk --

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