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Japan: from Metabolism to teamLab
Japanese visual culture between megastructure, emptiness, media, and bodily experience.
About this collection
The route joins two lines usually treated separately: the engineering utopia of growth and the discipline of emptiness. Both proceed from one question — how to design under conditions of limited space and constant renewal.
Megastructure and growth
- Metabolism — the city as living organism and an architecture of growth.
- SANAA — lightness, transparency, and the dissolution of volume.
- Tadao Ando — concrete, light, and the discipline of empty space.
The discipline of emptiness
- Minimalism — reduction, space, and the discipline of form.
- MUJI: the absence of brand as a brand project — the absence of branding as a consistent position.
- Charred Wood — charred wood: protection and black texture.
Media and bodily experience
- teamLab — an image the viewer walks into.
- Motion Design — Graphic Design Gains Time — graphic design that gained time.
- The Exhibition — Temporary Architecture of an Argument — the exhibition as temporary architecture of argument.