Digesting Metabolism
Mack, Casey / Mack, Casey / Chung, Omnivore, Alice
A group of Japanese architects calling themselves "Metabolists" first appeared together in 1960 at the World Design Conference in Tokyo.This impressive illustrated volume is the first to focus on the Metabolists' built designs for housing, which they regarded as living organisms, not static monuments. Inspired by Le Corbusier's concept of artificial land, their housing encouraged individual and collective forces to collaborate in the creation ...