Excerpt: "RISE OF THE OMITOPIA" (A.GLASS JULY 1ST 2020)
"...And this is important in understanding the Omnitopia concept. If we look back to the Japanese Metabolism architecture movement of the 1960s and early 70’s, its primary focus was, from its schematic ideas, to develop megastructure cities that emulate the flows of nature, more so was the importance of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, who was a post war pioneer in the reconstruction of Japanese cities that were devastated after World War 2. Its first incarnation, before Metabolism, was called the Burt Ash School, which was a contemplation of thoughts and ideas, aware of the apocalyptic firebombing during the end of war, which completed destroyed Tokyo city. Tange and his students with Metabolism formulated grand and practical concepts to rebuild Japanese cities into a developed future of possibilities. The movement faded into the late 1970s as a cohesive structural manifesto for architecture and urban planning, yet it still was able to offer an insight into the use of both technology and innovation of design, whilst observing the flows of nature from the roots of destruction.
Of course, in this discussion of an Omnitopia, it would be prudent to acknowledge the dilemma in creating a new city complex that embraces chaos and order which, in its modular dynamics would be able to cope and confine problems of social insatiability. However there may never be a sociopolitical solution to the issues surrounding humanities distress within nature and the cosmos..."
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Full article: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/07/rise-of-omitopia-aglass-july-1st-2020.html
(A.Glass 2020)
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