The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction, Paperback - William O. Gardner

Japan's postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second ...

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This book offers a reassessment of how "matter" - in the context of art history, criticism and architecture - pursued a radical definition of "mult...

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Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises signi...

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