What is it about?
Outline of the key elements of the Japanese architectural movement of Metabolism in the 1960s and their influence on Architectural and Urban discourse of the period
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Article published in 2004 which provides a short yet comprehensive review of the ideas and the projects of Metabolim in the period of rapid economic and urban growth in postwar Japan 1950-60.
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Japanese Metabolist Movement in a nutshell.
Dr. Raffaele Pernice
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Metabolism Reconsidered Its Role in the Architectural Context of the World, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, January 2004, Architectural Institute of Japan,
DOI: 10.3130/jaabe.3.357.
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