FANTASCIENZA

PYRAMID OF TETRA CITY © Buckminster Fuller Institute

Ok so maybe I'm getting carried away with all the Italian titles, but it just happened that I found all these cool Metabolist stuff in italian, and then of course I had it translated in fake english by Google. Here's a selection of Buckminster Fuller, Kiyonori Kikutake and of course Kenzo Tange.

KENZO TANGE, PLAN FOR The COVER Of the BAY OF TOKYO, 1960

Other entire submarine cities would have had a sporgente pillar outside from the water, with a heliport to the top. Such cities would have been surrounded from great underwater small farms where the man would have cultivated alghe and raised fish. The whale newly would even have become an animal from slaughter house!

KENZO TANGE, PLAN FOR The COVER Of the BAY OF TOKYO, 1960

Isozaki, "Metabolist" Group scheme for a modern city, 1963

KIYONORI KIKUTAKE, OCEAN CITY , 1962.

What's great with this period of projects is how fantastically wrong they were about the ways people like to live, and how beautifully these futuristic buildings become old and dated. You can just imagine the graffiti, the drug micro communities and crime scenes forming once these buildings are abandoned by their first stylish owneres etc etc. It's video game heaven all over again.

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