ABSTRACT
Fredric Jameson subsequently provided his own defining take on the architectural aspect of the condition in his own landmark book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in 1991, which provides an essential insight into the Japanese variant of the style as well as contemporary work. Both Kisho Kurokawa and Arata Isozaki, who have each been shown to represent different factions of the Metabolist movement, have now also become closely associated with its Postmodern sequel in a critically different way. Kurokawa's Wacoal Kojimachi Building in Tokyo, of 1984, on the other hand, uses far more literal coding. Expo '70 caused Isozaki to have a breakdown, and after he recovered he decided to abandon the Modernist project entirely in favor of an apolitical, a-contextual direction best illustrated by his Tsukuba Civic Center, in Ibaraki, built from 1979 to 1983.
