首页 | 本学科首页   官方微博 | 高级检索  
     

Images of the Future from the Past: The Metabolists and the Utopian Planning of the 1960s
基金项目:Special thanks go to David Munn and Austin Williams for their comments in the preparation of the essay; this is a revised and extended version of the paper presented at 1 lth International Symposium on Advanced Technologies (ISAT-Special), Kogakuin University, Tokyo, in October 2012.
摘    要:During the 1960s, many changes reshaped the economy, the society and the arts. The Cold War, the Space Race, the construction of a new middle class in most western societies led by the postwar economic prosperity with unprecedented urban growth followed by severe environmental problems fostered the design of spectacular urban utopian cities and mega-architectures. In those years, Japan was the source of highly influential bold and visionary urban and architectural ideas which relied on advanced technology. These ideas were conceived on the thought that cities could be seen as gigantic but impermanent entities able to transform itself according to an organic process of adaptation of its elementary components. This paper briefly revisits and critically discusses the legacy of the iconic mega-strnctural projects of Japanese Metabolist Movement and other visionary architects and planners of the 1960s, such as Paolo Soleri, Buckminster Fuller, Archigram. It attempts to enlighten the continuity with contemporary innovative and experimental urban models and ideas for the society and the city of the future, such as the Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Urbanism, whose design is led by concerns related to climate change, the necessity of energy efficiency, the improvement of urban landscape and the valorization of depleted natural resources.

关 键 词:乌托邦  年代  城市增长  图像  西方社会  太空竞赛  环境问题  技术来源
本文献已被 维普 等数据库收录!
设为首页 | 免责声明 | 关于勤云 | 加入收藏

Copyright©北京勤云科技发展有限公司  京ICP备09084417号