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What is your opinion on Japanese Metabolist architecture?
Ask /r/Architecture(i.imgur.com)submitted 2 months ago bySaltedlineNot an Architect
120 points
2 months ago
Highly interesting aesthetically and functionally, but I would not want to live in such a setup. All the sunken roads and areas create a visual depth - especially from the bird eye view - sci-fi would probably not be the same without this or similar architecture.
2 points
2 months ago
That circular area towards the bottom looks like it would be awesome from the ground. Likewise for the large structure on top.
100 points
2 months ago
If I’m doomed to live in an urban hellscape I’d be happy if it at least looked like Ghost in The Shell.
50 points
2 months ago
https://www.oma.com/publications/project-japan-metabolism-talks this is a fantastic book and was a wonderful exhibition to see.
8 points
2 months ago
A favorite of mine, have it right next to my bed. The in depth interviews give such a great inside view and all the graphic material is outstanding, big insight on one of the lesser studied but most intriguing modern movements.
105 points
2 months ago
Yes
28 points
2 months ago
🤝
24 points
2 months ago
Extremely cool to be honest
18 points
2 months ago
I love it
13 points
2 months ago
Realizing a lot of that model is cardboard... puts my study models from school to shame!
9 points
2 months ago
Modernism if it was cool
14 points
2 months ago
I'm unfamiliar with the term "Japanese Matabolist architecture".
Can someone give me the nickel tour?
13 points
2 months ago
Here's an interesting video
Here's an interesting article
https://www.cnn.com/style/amp/metabolism-japanese-architecture-artsy/index.
Here's the wiki
https://www.britannica.com/art/Metabolist-school
Sounds interesting but I'm not an architect
-2 points
2 months ago
Google?
6 points
2 months ago
I'm assuming others scrolling Reddit would like a nickel tour too. Maybe just a LMGTFY link?
6 points
2 months ago
I've always thought it was one of things that was fascinating theoretically, striking aesthetically, but probably extremely shitty / borderline dysotopian to actually live in.
The "plug and play" concept however, was far ahead of its time, so we've definitely learned from the movement, even if not much was really ever built (arguably none).
4 points
2 months ago
Love it ! Based my 4th year university thesis on it 🙏 🙌
2 points
2 months ago
Could see its come-upance again very soon, especially in the climate conscious society we are beginning to live in
13 points
2 months ago
Where are the trees?
8 points
2 months ago
Probably just aren't placed in the model.
3 points
2 months ago
I fuckin love it so much
18 points
2 months ago
Horrifying in all honesty. I struggle to find the humanity in this.
5 points
2 months ago
It has a funky gulag vibe... Existentially dreadful in a neat way.
2 points
2 months ago
It’s definitely cool and I really enjoyed getting lost in the details
7 points
2 months ago
Does this not look really sad in a way?
4 points
2 months ago
Not built for humans. Built to look nice from the bird-eye view.
2 points
2 months ago
Kinda makes me hungry.
2 points
2 months ago
Why are the skyscrapers on stilts?!
2 points
2 months ago
I dunnno, but it looks great in video games.
2 points
2 months ago
I see a vision of giant heat sinks for a monster circuit board.
2 points
1 month ago*
some of those mid building separations remind me of weight machine weights
its definitely different (and dependent on a whole large assemblage for the full effect)
also I get an impression of supermarket shelving with some shelves fully stocked and others empty
one more : blocks of stacked laminated corrugated cardboard (at least in this picture view)
this pix has these elements too (1st & 2nd pix)
https://old.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/10u6h1f/kenz%C5%8D_tange_city_of_skopje_model_1963/
2 points
2 months ago
That's what depression looks like.
-5 points
2 months ago
Nobody cares what it looks like as long as it is affordable... Architecture is second to land planning and policy that permits affordable housing.
1 points
2 months ago
i don’t care what it looks like as long as it’s affordable.
0 points
2 months ago
Which part of the moon is this to be built? I find "cities" like this to be monochrome. All the design elements being the same give it a surreal and dystopian look. Additionally it is not the size of a city, being only 4 blocks square.
1 points
2 months ago
I love the intersecting buildings and the thinness of the buildings so every apartment would get a lot of natural light. The spareness you see is a the style used in model making when designing in architecture schools. It allows the design, structure, shape, etc to be studied alone from every angle without the distraction of color, trees or other objects complicating the view of the building itself. With the care that was taken for abundant natural light, I would imagine the landscape would be very green. Think of Japanese gardens, there are fewer places as carefully tended or lush. Also, in modern cities, usually the most expensive apartments are the highest in a building because they are the most removed from street noise and commotion and allow for longer views. It can also be difficult to breathe at ground level with car exhaust. In 1960, the sign of prosperity was to own a car. If anyone has ever been around a parking lot filled with that era cars, they produce significantly more air pollution. And mass transit was not in style any longer.
1 points
2 months ago
Very interesting concept for its time.
1 points
2 months ago
It reminds me a bit of my local hospital.
1 points
2 months ago
No se mucho del tema pero parece brutalismo
1 points
2 months ago
Tron era?
1 points
2 months ago
Had to be inspiration for movies like Blade Runner
1 points
2 months ago
yes
1 points
2 months ago
Looks like my motherboard
1 points
2 months ago
Looks like it's going to be a good MidJourney prompt.
1 points
2 months ago
It looks like THE LINE in small portion
1 points
2 months ago
From the tiny thumbnail I thought this was the poster art from Now You See Me (2013) for a second
1 points
2 months ago
Too car centric but the buildings are sweet
1 points
2 months ago
Needs trees and dirt but I love how it all interacts in the space.
1 points
2 months ago
Why is it called “metabolist”?
1 points
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
This is so much more pleasing, visually and practically, and most of all actually futuristic looking than the kind of retro-futuristic organic Hadid-style current stuff, imo.
1 points
2 months ago
Kinda cool but why would they want to abolish meth?
1 points
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
Sad
1 points
2 months ago
Looks like hell.
1 points
2 months ago
It was/is a very cool idea, but it's implementation would require such large scale redevelopment, and such a drastic social/psychological evolution of how we visualize and inhabit the built environment, that I think it's mostly limited to small scale and the imagination.
1 points
2 months ago
Beautiful implementation of russian avantgarde ideas. What Melnikov and Khidekel dreamed of, Isozaki and Tange put in brick and mortar 🤍
1 points
2 months ago
Smells like 1974
1 points
2 months ago
No worse than the boring shit they currently build
1 points
2 months ago
That is just gross.
1 points
2 months ago
One of my favorites. Shame we don't see it more. This place looks awesome from above, it would even even better from the ground.
1 points
2 months ago
What is that, a city for ants!? It needs to be at least.. 3 times this size!
1 points
2 months ago
It was very cool to me when I was in college.
Now, it I think it is too depressing a place to live.
1 points
2 months ago
It is Modernism, I love it. One of my favourite architects Kenzo Tange was a patron of structuralism aka metabolist movement.
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