Kenchiku Bunka, June, Tokay

“Kenchiku Bunka” translates as “Architectural Culture” in English. The Shokokusha Publishing Company began monthly publication in 1950 in Tokay, Japan. In addition to architectural projects, K/B features theoretical texts and research documentations; its regular columns include news (domestic, K/B, and foreign), architectural economy, and the “Architect’s Bookshelf”—a book review on one selected publication each month. The size of Kenchiku Bunka is relatively large: nine by thirteen inches with a page count of about 200 pages (and up to 250 pages for some issues). This June 1967 issue is a special edition on “Two Approaches to Design of Environment,” referring to Metabolist architect Fumihiko Maki’s “Collective Form,” which distinguishes between three prototypes of morphological forms: compositional, mega-form, and group form; and Kisho Kurokawa’s “Method and Idea of Project of Settlement Unit,” an urban time-space module based on Metabolist concepts. The cover image illustrates Maki’s “Golgi structure,” which is a “group form” with independently existing elements in its framework. LH

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