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Concrete and Code - by Gabrielle Schaad (Paperback)

Name: Concrete and Code - by Gabrielle Schaad (Paperback)
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Reexamining Japanese postwar art and architecture through the prism of two groups, foregrounding material politics and evolving notions of environment and systemsIn Concrete and Code, two protagonists from postwar Japan era enter into the same frame: The Gutai Art Association, who developed a form of performative materialism in which bodies, organic and synthetic materials, and the environment interacted in real time, and the Metabolist movement, who envisioned an urban future shaped by system thinking.
Author(s): Gabrielle Schaad
384 Pages
Architecture, Criticism

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Reexamining Japanese postwar art and architecture through the prism of two groups, foregrounding material politics and evolving notions of environment and systems

In Concrete and Code, two protagonists from postwar Japan era enter into the same frame: The Gutai Art Association, who developed a form of performative materialism in which bodies, organic and synthetic materials, and the environment interacted in real time, and the Metabolist movement, who envisioned an urban future shaped by system thinking. Read side by side, they open a different history of Modernism, attentive to material politics, feminist critique and technopolitical entanglement.
This book reassesses the historical narratives that dominate our understanding of Japan's avant-garde. Gathering a wealth of visual materials, including archival documents from the Osaka Expo 1970 and the Gutai Art Association, the book offers a rare, comprehensive view into the artistic and architectural experiments that shaped postwar discourse on technology and environment.
Gabrielle Schaad is an art and architectural historian based in Zurich.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.5 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W)

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 384

Genre: Architecture

Sub-Genre: Criticism

Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers

Format: Paperback

Author: Gabrielle Schaad

Language: English

Street Date: October 20, 2026

TCIN: 1010972209

UPC: 9783037788172

Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-8971

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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