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Beyond Utopia - Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia (Hardcover)
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Beyond Utopia - Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia (Hardcover)
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Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are
commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial
understanding, Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely
utopian, the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a uniquely
amalgam genre: the myth camouflaged as utopia. Although its
Megastructure seemingly describes a desirable future condition as
utopia does, it also comprises certain cultural images rooted in
the collective (un)conscious of Japanese people, in accordance with
the general interpretation of myth. The primary narrative of Beyond
Utopia thus follows the gradual unfolding of the myth-like
characteristics of its Megastructure. Myth is dealt here as an
interdisciplinary subject in line with contemporary myth theories.
After expounding the mechanism underlying the growing demand for a
new myth in architecture (the origin of the myth), Part I discovers
the formal characteristics of the Megastructure of Metabolism to
give a hint of the real intention behind it. Based on this, Part II
is a reexamination of their design methods, which aims to clarify
the function of the myth and to suggest the meaning behind it.
Finally, Part III deals with the subject matter of the myth by
disclosing the meaning unfolding in the story, and suggests a new
reading of Metabolism urban theory: as an attempt to reconsider the
traditional Japanese space concept.
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