Rem Koolhaas on Project Japan, his book about Japanese metabolist architecture

In this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.

In this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, for which the pair interviewed every surviving member of the metabolist movement that emerged in 1950s Japan, plus their mentors, collaborators, rivals, critics, protégés, and families.

Koolhaas describes metabolism as “the first non-Western avant-garde” and “a premonition of what is going to come in the twenty-first century”.

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