What is it about?
How city planning experiments through land reclamation projects proposed for Tokyo in the late 1950s initiated a wave of new utopian projects in modern Japanese architecture.
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Why is it important?
This paper intends to investigate how since 1958 the theme of development of Tokyo into the sea by reclaiming lands along the coasts became the occasion for the productions on several utopian projects which witnessed the innovative potentials and the talent of a new generation of architects, such as the members of Metabolist Group and Kenzo Tange, who had a great impact on the further development of the modern Japanese architecture.
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The interplay of urban growth, innovation in technology and land reclamation for industrial development in Tokyo Bay and their function as catalysts for the development of the utopian planning of the Japanese Metabolist group and their bold innovative architectural and urban forms.
Dr. Raffaele Pernice
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: THE ISSUE OF TOKYO BAY'S RECLAIMED LANDS AS THE ORIGIN OF URBAN UTOPIAS IN MODERN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE, Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), January 2007, Architectural Institute of Japan,
DOI: 10.3130/aija.72.259.
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