Project Japan. Metabolism Talks… - Reviews
| "Project Japan features hundreds of fantastic never-before-seen images that tell the 20th Century history of Japan through its architecture."— Yellow Magazine, Houston, United States |
| „Das Buch liest sich extrem unterhaltsam und wurde von den Redakteuren Kayoko Ota und James Westcott atemberaubend gründlich kommentiert und prächtig bebildert. Ein Werk, das die Architekturgeschichtsschreibung sicherlich noch lange beschäftigen wird.”— Arch+, Berlin, Germany |
| “Sounding weary with focusing on his own positions and prominence and energized by researching Japan in the 60s and 70s, Rem Koolhaas came down for coffee at the Carlyle Hotel to talk about his new book Project Japan: Metabolism Talks (TASCHEN), a six year project undertaken with Swiss critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist to interview the founders and thinkers of what the architect calls “the first non-Western avant-garde movement in architecture” and the Dutch architect’s search for a more meaningful engagement between architecture and societies.”— Architect’s Newspaper, New York, United States |
| “Run, don’t walk, to get a copy of Project Japan: Metabolism Talks by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, just released by TASCHEN. This exhaustive and visually immersive text chronicles the Japanese avant-garde Metabolist movement hatched in 1960 which, although it only survived for a decade, proposed ambitious future visions of the city that continue to resonate today... Project Japan is a comprehensive, richly-detailed, and luscious project that is sure to satisfy serious scholars and popular audiences alike, and includes hundreds of archival photos, news clippings, TV broadcast stills, sketches, drawings, and model photos from the 1960s—in addition to a photographic record of the current state of built Metabolist works in Japan…In Project Japan, we confront the raw potency of an unbridled vision for an alternative urban future, which—despite its naive flaws—casts a long shadow over the comparatively piecemeal and low-stakes ambitions of architecture today. As Koolhaas concludes, “As memory weakens, vision is the only option.”— Architect Magazine, New York, United States |
| „Der Band Project Japan, Metabolism Talks…, herausgegeben von Rem Koolhaas und Hans-Ulrich Obrist, schreit in Neonfarben gegen das Vergessen einer intellektuell wie experimentell herausragenden Ära an. Das zusammengetragene Bildmaterial, die Faksimiles, vor allem die Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen und Überlebenden sind mitreißend.”— Monopol, Berlin, Germany |
| "Ils n’ont pas eu à dire «du passé faisons table rase» parce que leur pays avait été rasé. Tout restait à reconstruire, à réinventer. Visionnaires, utopistes, chouchoutés par une administration sensible à l’avant-gardisme, ils ont incubé leurs idées pendant 15 ans et porté à l’aube des années 60 un mouvement radical: le «métabolisme» ou l’architecture évolutive. Bâtiments et villes sont dessinés selon les mêmes lois organiques qui font que la vie croît et change. Le mouvement, conduit par Tange Kenzo, rassemblait critiques, architectes, designers et allait donner naissance à des immeubles comme la Capsule Tower de Kisho Kurosawa. Aujourd’hui, 50 ans plus tard, les jeunes architectes se penchent sur le métabolisme, s’en réclament. Car entre les fractales, la flexibilité et l‘écologie, c’est diablement actuel. Le livre (en anglais) fait témoigner les acteurs du groupe et propose des visions jusque-là seulement connues des aficionados de la science-fiction."— Artravel, Paris, France |
| “La última gran propuesta en materia de arquitectura de la editorial alemana TASCHEN. Project Japan es el resultado de una investigación de seis años sobre los metabolistas japoneses, que según palabras de sus autores ha supuesto un cambio significativo en la arquitectura. Rem Koolhaas, director de OMA, quien ha colaborado anteriormente con TASCHEN se alía en esta ocasión con Obrist. El increíble dossier fotográfico de esta publicación procede de diversos archivos privados que no habían visto la luz. Es la publicación de arquitectura más importante del año.”— Neo2, Madrid, Spain |
| “The sheer magnitude and breath of Metabolist imagination and endeavour astonished and literally conquered the Western-dominated world of architecture of the time. Koolhaas and Obrist deserve much credit for ensuring these phenomenal voices come through loud and clear in the fascinating 720 pages of this book. Designed in an unfussy style of a diary with eloquent comments in the margins, it includes photography and easy to follow sketches.”— Morning Star, London, United Kingdom |
| “Entre 2005 y 2011, el arquitecto Rem Koolhaas y el comisario de arte Hans Ulrich Obrist entrevistaron a los miembros supervivientes del metabolismo, la primera vanguardia no occidental, fundada en Tokio en 1960, en medio del milagro japonés de la posguerra. Project Japan presenta cientos de imágenes nunca vistas —planes maestros desde Manchuria a Tokio, instantáneas íntimas de los metabolistas trabajando y divirtiéndose, modelos arquitectónicos, extractos de revistas y asombrosas visiones urbanas de ciencia ficción— que narran la historia de Japón en el siglo XX a través de su arquitectura.”— El Cultural del ABC, Madrid, Spain |
| “Imagine being asked to design a book of 700-plus pages on the history of a postwar architectural movement, which is to include historical essays, maps, charts, photographs and dozens of interviews with the protagonists plus their collaborators, protégés and families. How could you possibly make such a tsunami of material seem coherent? With difficulty. And imagine how much more difficult that task would be if new content was still being generated after the design process had started. This was the challenge facing the Dutch book designer Irma Boom when she embarked on the design of “Project Japan: Metabolism Talks...”, a book produced by the architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist on the Metabolist architectural movement in post-war Japan. She did so by deploying lateral thinking. Her solution was to intersperse essays and interviews throughout the book, and to identify each section through color-coding. The colors of the page edges and of the introductory pages indicate whether a section is devoted to essays, interviews or photographs of the surviving Metabolist buildings. There is also a nostalgic note in the gently distorted Japanese “red sun” symbol on the book’s cover. Together with the reddish brown palette and roughly textured paper, it is Ms. Boom’s tribute to a 1960 pamphlet in which the Metabolists defined their goals.”— The New York Times, New York, United States |
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