TI:DU:IM
Shabbar Sagarwala, Empty Centre: symbolism
and the urban structure of Tokyo
“Modern Tokyo still maintains this
palimpsest of Edo with newer struc
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tures built on the symbolic framework;
although the city has been destroyed
by earthquakes and fires many times,
it has rebuilt itself on the persisting
form of the old.”
TI:DU:IM
Ulrich Schneider, Lost and found: architecture
for an Endless City
“The Kanto earthquake in 1923 provid
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ed an opportunity to consider the
practical implementation of efficient
new construction techniques, using
modern forms and materials. […]
Innovation and tradition lie side by
side.”
TI:DU:IM
Puente de Nihonbashi en 1840, 1911 y 2016.
TI:DU:IM
Tokyo en 1945, tras la II Guerra Mundial
ES:VE:FL
Robert Whiting, Negative Impact of 1964 Tokyo
Olympics profound, The Japan Times
“In order to avoid buying expensive
privately owned land for the train rails,
its builders constructed it over water
on a route provided gratis by the
municipal government, covering the
rivers, canals and sea areas below
with landfill and concrete in the
process. [...] It also became necessary
to build overhead expressways above
the existing rivers and canals to avoid
purchasing land. ”
ES:VE:DE
Toyo Ito, A Garden of Microchips, The Archi
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tectural Image of the Microelectronic Age
“The city (Tokyo) appears as a surreal,
panoptic vision composed of virtually
impossible and mutually cancelling
physical and temporal perspectives.
The disappearance of the idea(l)
framework of reference has reduced
the production of the city to a self-ref
-
erential activity.”
ES:VE:DE
Kevin Kelly, No harmony all flux
“This is where life lives, between the
rigid death of planned order and the
degeneration of chaos.”
IN:ME:SO
Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu
Tsukamoto, Made in Tokyo
“Los tejados, las superficies de pared,
los intradoses y los abundantes
huecos entre las edificaciones son
sub-productos urbanos vacíos sin uso
predefinido. Debido al alto precio del
suelo en Tōkyō, utilizar esos espacios
acaba volviéndose deseable.”
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