The Urbanism of Metabolism

Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow
Herausgeber: Pernice, Raffaele

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781032030739
• ISBN-10: 1032030739
• Artikelnr.: 62574533

Autorenporträt

Raffaele Pernice is an Italian architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo and a M.Arch. from the University IUAV of Venice in Italy. He has extensive research and teaching experience in Australia, East Asia, and the Middle East, and his interests and activities lie at the nexus of architecture and urbanism, ranging from design practice through to the theory and history of architecture and city planning, with a focus on the evolution of the cities of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been the recipient of scholarships and grants from universities and national and international institutions, such as the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT), the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Japan Foundation, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Logic of Metabolism (Toyo Ito); Introduction (Raffaele
Pernice); 1. Back from Behind the Curtain of Oblivion: Metabolism and the
Postwar Actuality of Japan (Hajime Yatsuka); 2. The Aesthetics and/or
Formalism of Change: Paradoxes and Contradictions in the Metabolist
Movement (Botond Bognar); 3. Engineering a Poetic Techno-urbanism: The
Metabolists' Visionary City in Postwar Japan (Raffaele Pernice); 4. The
Metabolists in Context (Jon Lang); 5. The Infrastructure of Care:
Metabolist Architecture as a Social Catalyst (Peter enk); 6. "Sunday
Carpenter" Metabolism: Artificial-Land Housing and Resident Decision-Making
(Casey Mack); 7. Maki and Dutch Team X: Step towards Group Form (Kiwa
Matsushita); 8. Kikutake Kiyonori circa 2011: Sustaining Life through
Metabolism (Ken Tadashi Oshima); 9. Metabolism as Survival Architecture (
Hyunjung Cho); 10. Metabolism Adventure: A Personal View (Philip Drew); 11.
This is Your City: The Pop Future Foretold by Metabolism (Yasutaka Tsuji);
12. Spaceship Earth: Metabolist Capsules, the Petro-economy, and
Geoengineering (Yuriko Furuhata); 13. An Eternal Return? Considering the
Temporality and Historicity of Metabolism (Julian Worrall); Afterword (
Gevork Hartoonian)