The Architecture of the Future in Japan: Utopia and Metabolism is an art and architecture book presenting projects built during the 1960s and 1970s. This 272-page book is richly illustrated by photographs taken in 2017 by Jérémie Souteyrat. The texts are by Benoit Jacquet. The preface to this work consists of an interview with a famous architect of the Japanese metabolist movement, the architect Kurokawa Kishō (1934-2007). This interview is conducted by architectural historian Fujimori Terunobu. The Metabolist movement was born in Japan in the late 1950s. Following the Second World War, Japan was largely destroyed, the country entered a cycle of high economic growth which was reflected in Architecture by visionary and utopian projects. The challenges of this architectural movement are to control and develop urban growth. The metabolist movement ended with the oil shock of 1973, which stopped this cycle of strong economic growth.

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