Kenzo Tange y los metabolistas - Antón Capitel

With his ingenious but not realized Tokyo Urban Planning as detonator –an expansion of the Japanese megalopolis that floated above the bay, conceived in organic key, Kenzo Tange surrounded himself with one of the most interesting modern utopias, the Japanese movement Metabolism. His radical proposals blurred the limit between architecture and city, competing with the technological and psychedelic of the British Archigram. Antón Capitel proposes a very interesting investigation about Tange’s work from the initial influence of his master Mayekawa, in the brutalist work of Le Corbusier, to end with the work of other Metabolist architects like Kikutake, Kurokawa or Maki