Beyond Utopia: Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia
, "Beyond Utopia: Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia"
English | ISBN: 1138056022 | 2018 | 238 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1138056022 | 2018 | 238 pages | PDF | 9 MB
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.
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