{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-25T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2009-12-25T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:50:53","slug":"tokyo-and-the-end-of-architecture-an-informal-tale-about-tokyo-readtherest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo and the end of architecture (an informal tale about Tokyo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a short piece on Tokyo for the UIA World Congress of Architecture which will be held here in Tokyo in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px;\">A visiting architect-friend of mine described Tokyo colorfully as \u201can urban disaster with shit-piled-upon-shit\u201d\u009d. Seeing my slightly annoyed face, he thoughtfully added \u201cbut it is fascinating shit\u201d\u009d. This is a stereotypical reaction I have heard many times over, and not only from visitors. The Japanese themselves, architects as well as non-architects mutter an apologetic reference to European cities when we talk about Tokyo. Kenzo Tange once said that Tokyo has had many times over the chance to rebuild itself: after the Great Earthquake of 1923 or after the World War \u00e2\u2026\u00a1 bombings, but according to Tange the rebuilding from an urban design&#8217;s point of view always failed. Did Tokyo, the world&#8217;s largest urban entity, really fail?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px;\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uia2011tokyo.com\/en\/rediscover\/architects_network\/001.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a short piece on Tokyo for the UIA World Congress of Architecture which will be held here in Tokyo in 2011. A visiting architect-friend of mine described Tokyo colorfully as \u201can urban disaster with shit-piled-upon-shit\u201d\u009d. Seeing my slightly annoyed face, he thoughtfully added \u201cbut it is fascinating shit\u201d\u009d. This is a stereotypical reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-tokyo","category-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}