City Catalyst
Architecture in the Age of Extreme Urbanisation
(Sprache: Englisch)
This publication allows architects to become familiar with the type of constantly changing, urban conditions that architecture has commonly avoided.
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This publication allows architects to become familiar with the type of constantly changing, urban conditions that architecture has commonly avoided.
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This publication allows architects to become familiar with the type of constantly changing, urban conditions that architecture has commonly avoided. A resource for a new generation of designers, young professionals, students, and academics who want to engage with the city on its own grounds, to abet its potentials and seek opportunities in its existing condition, City Catalyst demonstrates how today s architecture is redefining its position within the city.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „City Catalyst “
EditorIal 5Helen Castle
About the GUEST-EDITOR 6
Alexander Eisenschmidt
SPOTLIGHT 8
Visual highlights of the issue
Introduction 14
Stranger Than Fiction: A Mission Statement
Alexander Eisenschmidt
The City's Architectural Project: From Formless City to Forms of Architecture 18
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Patrons & Prototypes: Walmart's Catalytic Urbanism 26
Jesse LeCavalier
Localising the Global 36
Kyong Park
Revolution of the Ordinary 42
Daniela Fabricius
China's Macro-Planning Policies: Architectural Catalyst or Constraint? 50
Edward Denison
We Will Be Making Active Form 58
Keller Easterling
Counterpoints With Crisis 64
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Metropol Parasol, Seville 70
Jürgen Mayer H
The Perfect Storm: Urbanism and Architecture 74
Ron Witte
The Unified Project 80
Albert Pope
Void Metabolism 88
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Urban Wash 94
Sean Lally
African Water Cities 98
Kunlé Adeyemi
Make No Big Plans 102
Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout
Shape and the City 108
RE Somol
Too Big To Fail 114
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen
Parc Des Expositions (PEX), Toulouse: A Condenser for Diversity 120
Clément Blanchet
Dancing with Entropy 124
Adriaan Geuze and Matthew Skjonsberg
Importing the City into Architecture: An Interview with Bernard Tschumi 130
Alexander Eisenschmidt
C ounterpoint 136
Hello Stranger: Phenomenology and Topography of the Megacity
Caroline Bos
Contributors 142
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexander Eisenschmidt
- 2012, 1. Auflage, 136 Seiten, Maße: 21 x 27,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1119972663
- ISBN-13: 9781119972662
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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