The impact of Le Corbusier’s theories on Japanese architectural culture. From Towards an Architecture to the Metabolism Manifesto: Paris-Tokyo 1923-1960

Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture stands as a key modern manifesto whose influence extended to Japan and the emergence of the Metabolism movement in the late 1950s. Admired by Japanese architects trained in Le Corbusier’s Paris atelier, his ideas resonated strongly in postwar Tokyo, notably with the National Museum of Western Art (1959). In 1960, […]