The Orient Express in Japan World’s Fair Contaminations, Innovations and Technologies

Abstract

The writer remarks the technological innovation and contamination developed at the first World’s Fair held in Asia. He analyzes issues and methods of the master plan for the Osaka EXPO ’70, through a critical reading of Pavillon Plaza and Festival Plaza designed by Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki the emblematic covered area, facing the central EXPO square, reminds the utopia of the 60th architecture.