Tokyo: Architecture and Landscape | Visions for Megacities (Episode 2)

Architecture against landscape and tradition, maximum profit, that was and still is the motto when it comes to urban development. Many of the new megacities of Japan and China are a masterpiece of stacked levels for people and traffic. How can landscape and big city be combined?
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We begin with the Yokosuka Museum by the world-famous Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto. Almost programmatically, he has designed a suggestively unobtrusive building, a modern museum whose outstanding characteristic is its ability to nestle into the landscape, to want to conform to it.
The most modern architects are trying to design a new high-rise architecture that looks like landscape. In this second episode, architects Riken Yamamoto, Ma Yansong, Pei Zhu and Kengo Kuma give us an insight into their solutions for 21st century Asian architecture.
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Urbanisation and megacities are comparable to major natural phenomena. It’s all about contributing and rising to the crucial challenges of the here and now. This 4-part series on the new architecture in the Asian region is about concepts of a new city, necessary, unavoidable and existentially urgent due to the migration of millions of people to Asian cities. It is about answers to the question: How do we want to live in the 21st century? This voyage of discovery through Asian cities in search of answers to the existential questions for civilisation in the 21st century takes us to Japan and China.
Original Title: Visions for Megacities - The Asian Experiment
A film by Michael Trabitzsch
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