"Metabolism, The City of the Future" Exhibition
Mori Art Museum
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Tange Kenzo and the Metabolists attempted to create a new vision for a new architecture and the city that would be in step with the rapid economic development taking place in postwar Japan. Half a century later, we ask the Metabolists who participated in that movement to discuss the architectural and social relevance of those activities today. How is their work back then linked with their work today? The Metabolists themselves and those who worked with them will give testimony as to the dynamism of the movement’s formative period and its subsequent development.
The exhibition is organized in four sections, plus the Metabolism Lounge.
Section 1: Birth of Metabolism
Section 2: Era of Metabolism
Section 3: From Space to Environment
Section 4: Global Metabolism
Metabolism Lounge - current ideas on future city models
Media
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Schedule
From 2011-09-17 To 2012-01-15
Open Hours: 10:00-17:00 on Tuesdays. Open every day
Reviews
Fancy joining the TAB team in heading to the Mori Art Museum wearing an original costume inspired by the Metabolism exhibition?
Rem Koolhaas x Nanjo Fumio: Why Metabolism now?
Looking back at the period of the Metabolists through the eyes of today
A review of “Metabolism, the City of the Future”, at the Mori Art Museum
TABの仲間と、メタボリズム・ファッションで森美術館へ行こう！
レム・コールハース × 南條史生
今、なぜ〈メタボリズム〉なのか？
書籍『Project Japan』世界先行発売を記念したトークイベントでの模様を中心に 現代から、メタボリストたちの時代を振り返る
メタボリズム建築をテーマにしたファッションで、森美術館をジャック！
"Historically significant and immensely timely", the Metabolism show at the Mori Art Museum is a exhilarating portal into another era, when the word "reconstruction" still carried aura and promise.
Read the full review here: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20110929a1.html
人口増加時代の都市計画を見ていると、人口減少時代の次の都市を考えるきっかけとなります。
http://cuccino.blog104.fc2.com/blog-entry-160.html
On the positive side, this is an incredible collection of significant and inspiring design. As others have noted, this view into the future-from-the-past is filled with vision, hope and wonderfully elegant architecture.
Sadly though (for a foreign visitor) the exhibition is terribly let down by a remarkable lack of English translations of the written explanations, notes, labels and other material alongside the architectural models and images.
Such written material constitutes a large proportion of what's on show and, missing out on all this content, I therefore felt both frustrated (that I couldn't discover more about the incredible designs and philosophy of their creators) and disappointed (that the Mori Museum, with such an international reputation, didn't make more effort to fill in such glaring gaps).
たくさんの模型、たくさんの設計図、そして資料。メタボリズムという建築運動の流れを目から耳から学んでいく、少し目が回りそうな、けれども好きな人には宝の山のような展示。最後はブックラウンジコーナーで一休み。
I'm not sure if it has been changed since @sherpa comment. The full metabolism is exhibition is bilingual. The notes on the wall, the explanation in the room, videos are subtitled in English, and there are even audio guides in English. There is also an exhibition catalog in English.
The exhibition goes through a lot of materials and if you really want to take the time to dive into all the material, you will need around 3 to 4 hours. It is rich. There is a lot of materials around models and projects realized or not realized, but not enough materials on the transition in between the sources of inspiration. We can see the Japanese architecture is used, the biology research, the anatomy of cells, the DNA etc, but the relation is not always clearly explicit.
a bit unrelated to this exhibition, but more and more as an international traveler, I wish the exhibition catalog would be on sale on a usb drive. I do not want to have books anymore. I want a simple html web site with all the exhibition on a USB key. No fancy flash program that would not work anymore in 5 years from now.