书名/Title：Kiyonori Kikutake:Between Land and Sea / 伊东丰雄:陆地与海洋之间

作者/Author：大岛正｜Ken Tadashi Oshima

出版/Publisher：Lars Müller Publishers，2020

装帧/Binding：精装，216页｜Paperback, 216 pages

尺寸/Dimensions：25 × 20.7 cm

语种/Language：英语｜English

This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of the work of the Metabolic architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) in the English language, highlights his lifelong concern with the problems of a changing world, particularly urban sprawl and sustainability, and his creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea. For more than half a century, the visionary architect has pursued metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling and transformation.

Metabolism has its core idea in that the increasingly disparate rates of change in cities required new paradigms for architectural and infrastructural design. Architects, as Kikutake argued, needed to understand more keenly their role in society, and to address the underlying sociological and psychological unease of contemporary citizens before determining how, where, and what to build. He advocated beginning a design not with a preconceived program — a list of rooms — but with questions about how one relates to, and lives among, one’s surroundings.

The publication documents some of the architect’s pivotal works, spanning the late 1950s to today – including the Sky House, Hotel Tokoen, the Izumo Grand Shrine Administration Building and the ongoing Marine City project. Abundantly illustrated with archival drawings and period and contemporary photographs, Between Land and Sea provides compelling perspectives on the practices, discourses and production contexts of Kikutake’s work as well as the architecture and urbanism of postwar Japan, situating Kikutake’s work within an international context and as a vital inspiration for Japanese architectural practice today.

Kiyonori Kikutake serves as a vital guide for Japanese architectural practice today. In this book, writings by Kikutake himself, the viewpoints of disciples including Toyo Ito as well as essays and analyses provide insights into the methods and modes of practice of the architect.