ABSTRACT
Japanese architecture was of considerable worldwide interest, especially after the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Stadia highlighted its distinctive regional interpretation of modernism fused with Japanese carpentry tradition, after the inspiration of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond. The great adventure of Metabolism is explored as a personal experience in 1967, and during later revisits to study the works of individual Metabolists and research Minka domestic architecture under the direction of Professor Teiji Itoh, treating the concept of assembled components, exaggerated and supersized to megastructure proportions that persisted into the 1970s at Osaka Plaza under Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki. The chapter dwells on and gives special attention to Arata Isozaki’s development in particular, and his subsequent later application of Metabolist practices, including capsule housing by Kisho Kurokawa.
