Intravention, Durations, Effects

"As a discipline and practice, architecutre needs periodic infusions of wit, generous acts of criticism, and intelligent reformulations of precepts. Alberto Altés and Oren Lieberman have edited just such a volume and then some. The conceptual grounding for 'immediate interventions' is matched by an attention to formal qualities, social agendas, and political implications of design, evident in this richly illustrated book. A range of authors offer formulations of a new agency for architecture, its students, its practitioners, and its publics. Intravention. fundamentally reshapes our ideas about environmental experience." Dr. Dana Cuff, Director, cityLAB/Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLAIntravention, Durations, Effects defines architecture not as an 'it' but as a process; in that sense, architecture is a verb: to architect. Rather than refer to the (paradoxical) limiting of intervention's 'in-between', it posits a new concept: intravention. Intra's focus on the 'within' establishes intraventions as (already) a part of the spaces and times in which they are 'intravening'.