1945 The Bomb

1951 Kamakura Museum (Sakakura)

1955 Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Tange)
1957 Tokyo City Hall (Tange)

Urgent Reconstruction "Architecture for Democracy"
( Industrialization of Building and Design Methods)
Maekawa & Sakakura (End of the debate of styles)

1958 Sky House (Kikutake)

1957 - 1959 National Museum of Western Art (Le Corbusier)

1959 - 1960 Oita Medical Hall (Isozaki)

1960 Kurashiki City Hall (Tange)

World Design Conference held in Tokyo

Japan moves beyond "form follows function" to
Non Static Architecture capable of "Metabolic" changes not fixed form or function. (Metabolism)

The Grand Projects (Japanese Mirracle)

*Tokyo Plan
*Skopje City Yugoslavia
*Yerba Buena Center San Francisco

1961 Mega Structures

Helix City (Kurokawa)
Floating City (Kikutake) realised in part for the Okinawa Expo in 1975
City in the Air (Isozaki)

1962 Future City (Isozaki) -later to become "Destruction of the Future City" 1968