Pierre-Jean Giloux :  Invisible Cities

Metabolism  is an homage to this groundbreaking architectural movement. It utilizes 3D computer graphics technology to manifest the megastructures that the Metabolists conceived but never succeeded in realizing, portraying a Tokyo in which and reality and fiction intricately intersect. What is it that remains “invisible” to us? If it is the element of vision in urban planning, then the forward-looking ideas of the Metabolists, in which the organic cycle of growth, decay, and regeneration serves as the key to realization of sustainable cities, may still be valid to this day.

Prototype

Nakagin capsule

poster of the metabolism movement 

‘nakagin capsule tower building’ (1972) by  kisho kurokawa

‘metabolism, the city of the future: dreams and visions of reconstruction in postwar and present-day japan’

Fictional Landscapes

80s Revival

Kiyonori Kikutake, 1928-2011

IIT Architecture Lecture Series: Kenneth Frampton, "World Megalopoli and the Japanese Experience"