“Project Japan” features hundreds of never-before-seen images; masterplans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions that tell the history of 20th-century Japan through its architecture. Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism―the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle. Charlie Koolhaas contributed photographs of the buildings being occupied in their present state.
