AA Visiting Students Lecture
Resilience
According to my friend S. the implementation of city plans would inevitably bring cities to destruction.
—Arata Isozaki
The destructive character sees nothing permanent. But for this reason, he sees ways everywhere.
—Walter Benjamin
Arguably the most often destroyed metropolis in the world, Tokyo has seized the opportunity to reinvent itself time and again, developing a resilience to destruction of any kind. In fact, the constantly recurring destruction caused by often tragic disasters has altered the city’s DNA to a degree that today, deliberate and constantly ongoing destruction and rebuilding is perhaps the city’s most powerful urban generator.
Title
Resilience
date
2016.12.20
Place
Tokyo
Language
English
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