Book Review| September 01 2021 Review: The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 232 pp., 16 color and 4 b/w illus. $108 (cloth), ISBN 9781517906238 Zhongjie Lin Zhongjie Lin University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021) 80 (3): 366–367. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.366 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Zhongjie Lin; Review: The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2021; 80 (3): 366–367. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.3.366 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Over the past decade, the publication of several notable books, including historical accounts, a collection of interviews, and an exhibition catalogue, has attested to growing academic interest in the history of Metabolism, Japan's postwar avant-garde architectural movement.1 Departing from the movement's earlier historiography, which centered on criticism of modernism and megastructure, these recent accounts have attempted to shift attention to the movement's influence on and implications for the city of the present and the future. William O. Gardner's The Metabolist Imagination is the most recent addition to this literature, focusing specifically on the intersection between Metabolist urban imageries and works of science fiction generated during the 1960s. Alongside his examination of this dialogue, which continued into the following decades, Gardner presents many relevant examples of architectural, literary, and film production. The book is organized into six chapters that can be roughly divided into two parts. The introduction and first... You do not currently have access to this content.