Folio: Arata Isozaki
By: Editors, A R
.
Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2020Edition: 17 January 2020 .Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
In:
Architectural reviewSummary: Arata Isozaki grew up during the Second World War in Japan. ‘The ruins that formed my childhood environment were produced by acts of sudden destruction’, he remembers. ‘Wandering among them instilled in me awareness of the phenomenon of obliteration, rather than a sense of the transience of things.’ In Incubation Process, which Isozaki drew in 1962, he imagined a new cannibalistic city, built in the ruins of Greek antiquity. He wrote that: ‘Future cities are themselves ruins. Our contemporary cities are destined to live only a fleeting moment, give up their energy and return to inert material. All of our proposals will be buried and once again the incubation mechanism is reconstituted. That will be our future’
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Articles Abstract Database
|
School of Architecture Archieval Section | Not for loan | 2021-2021566 |
Arata Isozaki grew up during the Second World War in Japan. ‘The ruins that formed my childhood environment were produced by acts of sudden destruction’, he remembers. ‘Wandering among them instilled in me awareness of the phenomenon of obliteration, rather than a sense of the transience of things.’ In Incubation Process, which Isozaki drew in 1962, he imagined a new cannibalistic city, built in the ruins of Greek antiquity. He wrote that: ‘Future cities are themselves ruins. Our contemporary cities are destined to live only a fleeting moment, give up their energy and return to inert material. All of our proposals will be buried and once again the incubation mechanism is reconstituted. That will be our future’
Click on an image to view it in the image viewer
There are no comments for this item.