Abstract
Cities in the sky, superhighways over the seas, floating layers of techno-villages. These utopic proposals for Japan were generated by a passionate and extraordinary group of young Japanese architects fueled by the futuristic vision to rebuild their nation. Parallel to their idealism, was the path of Peter Land, an Englishman by way of Yale and South America, tasked to plan housing for the poor. Incredibly, their idealism would cross and the Metabolists’ first and only project would be for a United Nations social housing development in a place very far from Japan: Peru. Eui-Sung Yi sat down with the group’s last living member, Fumihiko Maki, and the organizer of the project, Peter Land, to discuss this project and its place in modern urban design (read the interviews in pg. 65 and 68, respectively).
Keywords
Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
High density architecture,
Urban growth,
Modern urban planning,
Ideal city,
Metabolism,
PREVI,
Peruan modern architecture.
Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 58-71
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.I679BS7M