다음은 출판사인 타셴 홈페이지의 책소개 입니다.

Back to the future/현재는 과거로부터 이어진 세계입니다. Visionary architecture in postwar Japan/ 건축기술과 건설기술이 전시대와 달리 엄청난 진보를 거듭한 시대에 건축가들이 전후 폐허에서 새로운 도시 건설을 꿈꾼다. 상상이 겹쳐진 환상적인 계획들이 전후 그 싯점을 기준으로 어떻게 시간과 정부정책을 따라 일본이란 계획단지위에 펼처져 왔는지에 대한 총체적인 토론이 Rem Koolhaas주관하에 2005년부터 2011까지 7년동안 진행된 도큐먼트를 기록한다.

 “Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think… although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture—Metabolism—that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men… Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....” —Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist 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. Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images—master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions—telling the 20th century history of Japan through its architecture, from the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s to a devastated Japan after the war, the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokoy, to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, to the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair.
육성 인터뷰 기록: Oral history by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
일본의 중심적인 건축가들과 심층 인터뷰 를 하였음: (Extensive interviews with):Arata Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako and Noritaka Tange Hundreds of never-before-seen images, architectural models, and magazine excerpts Layout by award-winning Dutch designer Irma Boom Exhibition Mori Museum, Tokyo /본서의 근간이 되는 프로젝트 /Metabolism에 대한 전시회가 모리 뮤지엄(일본) 에서 열림.