7 FebruaryProject Japan at London’s Architectural Association
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Project Japan
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Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist discuss their new book Project Japan: Metabolism Talks… at London's Architectural Association, hosted by Brett Steele, director of the AA, and writer Shumon Basar. Watch the entire event here. |
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Project Japan is edited by Kayoko Ota with James Westcott (both of OMA/AMO), designed by Irma Boom, and published by Taschen. It tells the story of the first non-western avant-garde movement in architecture, and the last movement anywhere to play a crucial role in the economic, intellectual, and architectural (re)building of a nation: Metabolism. Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism, together with dozens of their collaborators, mentors, rivals, critics, protégés and families. The result is a vivid documentary both of an architectural movement and an activist state that mobilised the most creative forces of its population for a task that, in 1945, seemed impossible… |

