‘Exquisite Corpse’ was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are
America’s cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism–manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space–is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places,
Prototypo is a Lisbon-based, high-profile bilingual magazine, in English and Portuguese, featuring 160 pages in color of the finest and most exciting architectural and artistic output. Responding to the motto of “space-craftsmanship”, Prototypo summons some of the leading figures in cultural discourse to give its readers a multifaceted perspective of recent proceedings in project design.
The work of Spanish architect Julio Salcedo is shown in this book as a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo’s houses – early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their freshness and precocious sophistication – are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for large-scale buildings. The projects in their varying locations,
In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation’s future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we’ll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile
Hailed as “extraordinarily learned” (New York Times), “blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,” (New York Magazine), and the “definitive record of New York’s architectural heritage” (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky’s book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about