Project Japan : an oral history of Metabolism / by Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist ; editors, Kayoko Ota with James Westcott, AMO.

By:

Koolhaas, Rem

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Koln : Taschen, 2011.Description: 719 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9783836525084 (hbk.)

Other title:

Project Japan : metabolism talks [Cover title]

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DDC classification:

720.95209046 22

Summary: "Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture--Metabolism--that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men..."--Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	720.95209046 KOO 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00022157

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture--Metabolism--that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men..."--Publisher's description.