<p>¿Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was <strong>destroyed by atom bombs</strong>... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was <strong>not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think</strong>... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they <strong>surprised the world with a new architecture</strong>¿Metabolism¿that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men¿ Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country,<strong> Japan, became a shining example<