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Being the Mountain

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Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles / PRODUCTORA

The result of research PRODUCTORA initiated as winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice at Illinois Institute of Technology, Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious -a building must touch the ground- that it often remains underexplored. Richly illustrated contributions by Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Wonne Ickx, Véronique Patteeuw, and Jesús Vassallo revisit significant moments in architectural history that cast new light on the techniques and legacies of modernism, especially in settings like Mexico and California, where architects such as Ricardo Legorreta and John Lautner incorporated dramatic natural topography in their agendas. Additional essays investigate the role of the ground in the thought of Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s and Luis Moreno Mansilla in the 1990s, as well as point to important parallels between premodern land practices, twentieth-century art, and today’s architecture.
Together, these episodes call into question our received assumptions and present new possibilities for the connection between a building and its site. A portfolio of related projects by PRODUCTORA concludes the book, further drawing out the idea of architecture as a form of constructed ground. Open Systems have been the research focus of CoLab since 2013. This book collects some relevant and engagingly contemporary insights. It also includes new unpublished interviews and articles with international participants leading players in this field.

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Authors: Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles/ PRODUCTORA
Contributors: Jesús Vassallo, Frank Escher, Véronique Patteeuw; Preface: Dirk Denison
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 96
Illustrations: Color
Cover: Hardcover
Publication date: May 2020
Published by: Actar Publishers & the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Press
ISBN: English 9781948765510
Price: 32€/ £29/ $34.95

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Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles / PRODUCTORA

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Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious—a building must touch the ground—that it often remains underexplored.

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