АРХИТЕКТУРА МЕТАБОЛИЗМА. ИЗОБРЕТЕНИЕ КУЛЬТУРЫ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ

THE ARCHITECTURE OF METABOLISM. INVENTING A CULTURE OF RESILIENCE

The article deals with Metabolism in architecture and a link with cultural resilience. The Metabolist movement attracted the attention of an international architecture community to Japan in 1960s. Many architectural journals have published articles about radical and visionary projects of Tange, which still inspire architects to this day. After the atomic bombing of Japan many architects began to look for ways to restore the country without losing its national identity. It included a notion of cultural resilience. Metabolism wasn't only related to architecture, but also political, social and physical field of the country. This way considered life cycles of Japan and every citizen. The Metabolists wanted to create a place that could adapt to any changes, but without destroying the major values of the Japanese. Projecting a utopia of resilience, Metabolism employed biological metaphors and recalled techno-scientific images which, together with the vernacular, evoked the notion of a genetic architecture able to be recreated again and again. The growth of populations and the rapid globalization of building standards during this century demand an immediate response from designers in terms of space rationalizing to fulfill the forthcoming lack of architectural habitat on earth. A subject of articles mostly presented historically. The architecture of Japan mainly consists of megastructures, orders, exact hierarchies. Japanese architects offered ideas of cities on water and in the air due to the lack of land. The Neoliberalism, Marxism, Urbanism, genetic architecture are the Metabolism and modern Japanese architecture.