Project Japan. Metabolism Talks?
Rem Koolhaas
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Add to basketNeuware -'Es war einmal eine Nation, die in den Krieg zog und einen Kontinent eroberte, bevor ihr eigenes Land durch Atombomben zerstört wurde. dann zwangen die Sieger den Besiegten die Demokratie auf. Für eine Gruppe von angehenden Architekten, Künstlern und Designern war diese schwere Zeit ihres Landes kein Hindernis, sondern eine Inspiration zum Planen und Nachdenken. obwohl sie sehr unterschiedlicher Natur waren, arbeiteten die Architekten unter der Führung eines Visionärs eng zusammen, um ihren Traum zu verwirklichen. Sie hatten die vorbehaltlose Unterstützung einer super-kreativen Bürokratie und eines aktivistischen Staates. nach 15 Jahren der Inkubation überraschten sie die Welt mit einer neuen Architektur, dem Metabolismus, der die radikale Umgestaltung des ganzen Landes zum Ziel hatte. Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und Fernsehen machten die Architekten zu Helden: Denker und Macher, durch und durch moderne Männer. Dank harter Arbeit, Disziplin und der Bündelung aller kreativen Kräfte wurde ihr Land, Japan, zu einem leuchtenden Vorbild. als die Ölkrise das Ende des Westens einläutete, schwärmten die Architekten aus Japan über die ganze Welt aus, um die Konturen einer post-westlichen Ästhetik zu definieren.' -Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist Der Architekt Rem Koolhaas und der Kurator Hans Ulrich Obrist haben die überlebenden Mitglieder der Metabolismus-Bewegung interviewt - die erste nicht-westliche Avantgarde, die sich 1960 während des japanischen Nachkriegswunders in Tokio formierte. Project Japan enthält hunderte nie gesehener Bilder, darunter Masterpläne von der Mandschurei bis Tokio, private Schnappschüsse der Metabolisten beim Arbeiten und Vergnügen, Architekturmodelle, Magazinausschnitte und erstaunliche urbane Science-Fiction-Visionen. Sie erzählen Japans Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts durch seine Architektur, von der Tabula rasa der kolonisierten Mandschurei in den 1930er Jahren bis hin zum zerstörten Japan nach dem Krieg. Sie zeigen die Gründung der Metabolisten bei der World Design Conference 1960 in Tokio, den Aufstieg Kisho Kurokawas zum ersten Star-Architekten, den Höhepunkt des Metabolismus auf der Expo 1970 in Osaka und seine anschließende Expansion nach Nahost und Afrika. Das Ergebnis ist eine lebendige Dokumentation des letzten Mals, als Architektur eine öffentliche und keine private Angelegenheit war.Erinnerungen von Rem Koolhaas und Hans Ulrich Obrist ausführliche Interviews mit Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, und Takako und Noritaka Tange Hunderte von unveröffentlichten Bildern, Architekturmodellen und Magazin-Ausschnitten Mehr lesen 720 pp. Englisch.
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“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… Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....” ―Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist
Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism―the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images―master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions―telling the 20th-century history of Japan through its architecture.
From the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s, a devastated Japan after the war, and the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka, and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s: The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair. Oral history by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Extensive interviews with Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako and Noritaka Tange
Hundreds of never-before-seen images, architectural models, and magazine excerpts
Layout by award-winning Dutch designer Irma Boom
Further reading
Hans Ulrich Obrist is the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first exhibition World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows and has published extensively on art, architecture, and culture. In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence.
Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and scriptwriter before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. His 1996 book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. Among many international awards, he has received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003).
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