{"product_id":"project-japan-metabolism-talks","title":"Project Japan — Metabolism Talks","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"758\"\u003eThis book by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, \u003cem data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"170\"\u003eProject Japan\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Taschen, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it captures a singular architectural movement that emerged from postwar Tokyo with radical vision and global consequence. Through extensive oral histories and archival excavation, Koolhaas and Obrist reconstruct the story of Metabolism — the only major avant-garde movement in architecture to emerge outside the West. It proposed buildings that could grow like organisms, cities that could float, and urbanism as a living system — an optimistic architectural response to the devastation of war and the demands of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"1285\"\u003eMore than a survey, \u003cem data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"795\"\u003eProject Japan\u003c\/em\u003e is an investigative archive. Through interviews with key figures like Kiyonori Kikutake and Kisho Kurokawa, as well as planners, bureaucrats, and critics, the book maps the complex interplay between political utopia, national identity, and architectural form. Designed with the visual density of an AMO project, it includes hundreds of photographs, plans, media clippings, and previously unseen materials. The layout itself becomes a medium — not just transmitting history, but staging it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1560\"\u003eThis is a book about architecture, but also about the last moment in which architecture believed it could shape public life. It is essential for readers interested in Japan’s global influence, design as ideology, and the way architectural dreams become political documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1581\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1581\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1963\"\u003eTitle: Project Japan: Metabolism Talks\u003cbr data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1624\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist\u003cbr data-start=\"1673\" data-end=\"1676\"\u003eEditors: Kayoko Ota with James Westcott\u003cbr data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1718\"\u003eDate: n.d.\u003cbr data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1731\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1775\" data-end=\"1778\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover with wraparound band\u003cbr data-start=\"1828\" data-end=\"1831\"\u003eDimensions: 17 x 23.3 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1855\" data-end=\"1858\"\u003ePages: 720\u003cbr data-start=\"1868\" data-end=\"1871\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Taschen\u003cbr data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"1901\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-8365-2508-4\u003cbr data-start=\"1924\" data-end=\"1927\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"1947\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52474980204882,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_c05f19ce-8c8a-413d-9baf-066ee7cf5523.jpg?v=1768379008","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/project-japan-metabolism-talks","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}