Metabolism

Rarity: Uncommon

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Notion

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

Metabolism (Japanese: メタボリズム, Hepburn: metaborizumu; also shinchintaisha (新陳代謝)) was a post-war Japanese biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.

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