ABSTRACT
The idea of Collective Form by Maki and Ōtaka took a different approach from more techno-utopian vision by Kikutake and Kurokawa to the problem of great number in the city. During the concept’s formative years, Maki was closely affiliated with the members of Team X around 1960 and his idea resonated especially with their Dutch members Jaap Bakema and Aldo van Eyck. This chapter focuses on the exchanges of ideas among them and analyzes van Eyck’s configurative discipline and Maki’s group form to clarify how they attempted to design a comprehensive city while allowing for maximum freedom for individuals. The idea of Collective Form, best exemplified by Hillside Terrace, remains relevant to the problems of today’s shrinking cities and has developed into Maki’s recent proposal, Another Utopia.
