Expo '70

The Expo Tower

The World Expo '70 (Japanese日本 万 国 博 覧 会, nihon bankoku hakurankai or大阪 万博, Osaka bampaku ) took place from 15 March to 13 September 1970 in Suita, a suburb of the Japanese city of Osaka instead. She was the first World's Fair in Japan and the first on the Asian continent in general.

At the exhibition, 77 countries presented within six months of 64.21877 million visitors were registered. 1040 exhibitors were represented. The exhibition area was 330 hectares. In order for the Expo '70 one of the largest and most visited world's fairs ever was. The theme of the Expo was Jinrui no Shimpo to Chowa (人類 の 進歩 と 調和, dt " Progress and Harmony for Mankind" ).

History

Even in the time of the first world exhibitions in Japan, there were ideas for a World's Fair, but the implementation failed due to the lack of foreign interest. Even in the 20th century failed several thrusts: the planned 1912 World's Fair had to be canceled due to the death of Emperor Meiji and after the Second World War made ​​it impossible to conduct a World Expo in Japan.

As 1966, the Bureau International des Expositions granted approval for a World Expo in Japan, this was the opportunity to present itself as the third economic power behind the two superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union for Japan.

Multimedia was the big trend at the Expo '70: Projections of films and slides with Tonuntermalung, projections on fixed and moving surfaces, surround projections - Multimedia was omnipresent.

Architecture

At the Expo '70 dominated metabolistic buildings in the Japanese architect with constructivist support structures for hanging structures. In contrast to this was the massive Soviet Pavilion: With 107 meters, it was after the Expo Tower is the second tallest building on the Expo site and symbolized a red flag to entrollende. The U.S. Pavilion was an air-supported structure, in which air was blown under a thin plastic film from the outside.

Particularly known from this period is the German pavilion, which enabled the spherical auditorium sound for the listener in the equatorial plane of a spherical azimuthal arrangement of hundreds of speakers. This was the first truly three-dimensional reproduction of music. The concept for the multimedia pavilion was created in collaboration of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Otto Piene.

Reuse

Today the former exhibition area houses the built on the occasion of the exhibition Osaka Expo '70 Stadium, where the Japanese professional football club Gamba Osaka plays.

Gallery

Japanese Fairy Tale Pavilion, Expo'70 Osaka

Furukawa Pavilion, Expo'70 Osaka

Hitachi Pavilion, Expo'70 Osaka

Ricoh Kodak Pavilion, Expo'70 Osaka

Swiss Pavilion, Osaka Expo'70

Fuji Pavilion, Osaka Expo'70

Soviet Pavilion, Osaka Expo'70