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The Generic Sublime

Organizational Models for Global Architecture Ciro Najle Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, industrial and technology parks, hotel complexes and resorts, conference and financial centers, entertainment venues, gated communities, theme parks, branded cities, new central districts, and satellite cities: extra-large architectural typologies dominate the contemporary built environment worldwide. Despite the ubiquity of these building forms, their development has been largely restricted by a reliance on outmoded traditions of urbanism and the strict separation of disciplinary domains within current architectural practice. The Generic Sublime investigates how the modern concept of the generic––once assumed to achieve universality by means of organizational homogeneity, formal neutrality, programmatic blankness, lack of identity, and insipidness of character––holds the potential to become its very opposite: the singular, the irreducible, and the extraordinary. Directing the work of students of the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Ciro Najle examines the organizational protocols of building collectives and develops architectural models for encompassing the unprecedented potential of the extra-extra-large. The book includes essays by Ciro Najle, Mohsen Mostafavi, Iñaki Abalos, Charles Waldheim, George L. Legendre, David Salomon, Paul Andersen, Lluís Ortega, Leire Asensio Villoria, David Mah, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Alberto Delorenzini, Marcia Krygier, Julián Varas, Erika Naginski, Hiromi Hosoya, Farshid Moussavi, and Anna Font. EBOOK EDITION

Viviendas para el Patronato de Casas Militares / Dwellings for the Military Housing Trust

Fernando Higueras, Antonio Miró, Madrid 1966-1974 Javier García-Germán, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave and Alejandro Valdivieso Being the first book series dedicated to vindicating and disseminating Madrid’s 20th century architectural heritage both among the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) members themselves —and, in particular, among the youngest ones— as well as among the citizens of Madrid, the 'Libros de Arquitectura' Series will dedicate its first volume to Housing. As a secondary objective, by offering the books in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, the possibility of distributing them outside Spain is raised, positioning, in addition to the work of the COAM’s Special Collections Archive, the work of the architects and the architecture from Madrid; updating it based on the paradigms proposed for each of the forthcoming issues of the magazine Arquitectura (territory, climate, inclusion, body, beauty and practice). Motivated by the absence of a document that critically determines its value and validity —by updating the views on the subject (Housing) and on a specific architecture—, the chosen building was that one built by Fernando Higueras and Antonio Miró from 1966 to 1974 by order of the Patronato de Casas Militares [Spanish Military Housing Trust]. The book traces the history of the building, from the demolition of the former Hospital de la Princesa, the first attempts to build a housing complex for military personnel (preliminary studies and restricted competition) to the commission made to Fernando Higueras and the development of the project together with Antonio Miró and, finally, its subsequent construction. However, the book does not stop there, by complementing the reproduction of all those documents that determine its history (reports, studies, records, drawings, plans and images) with a new visual essay and several essays that critically review the building from different contemporary paradigms, including that which refers to the critical conservation of modern heritage. With the Contributions of Elena Almagro, Lola Botia, Silvia Colmenares, Enrique Encabo and Inmaculada Esteban Maluenda, Javier García-Germán, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave, Alberto Sanz and Alejandro Valdivieso.

Il Diritto alla Natura (ITA ED.)

Verso un nuovo paesaggio urbano Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio Il Diritto alla Natura è un nuovo capitolo di riflessione e lavoro di AG&P greenscape, incentrato sul rapporto attuale e rinnovato tra l'uomo e la natura, e sulla conseguente trasformazione delle nostre città attraverso nuove modalità di vivere, abitare e lavorare, con la natura e il paesaggio come protagonisti, in ogni ambito e a tutte le scale del progetto, come equilibratori sociali e attivatori di una nuova socialità urbana. Il rapporto tra l'uomo e la natura oggi è una questione urgente nel dibattito sulla città contemporanea, ma deve ancora essere veramente esplorato, definito e costruito. Attraverso sette temi principali – Socialità/Collettività, Infrastrutture, Abitare, Lavoro/Welfare, Rigenerazione, Cura, Patrimonio – il libro esplora le questioni contemporanee del paesaggio urbano alle diverse scale del progetto, alla luce del rapporto tra essere umano e natura. Il concetto viene esplorato attraverso esempi, riflessioni e progetti ideati da AG&P greenscape. In dialogo con altri architetti e comitati – tra cui Renzo Piano Building Workshop, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Crédit Agricole, Fondazione Riccardo Catella –, il libro sottolinea l'importanza di una qualità condivisa del paesaggio urbano quotidiano come una qualità chiave delle nostre città contemporanee. Sguardo

AG&P greenscape ha sempre adottato un punto di vista che mira ad abbattere le barriere tra paesaggio, architettura, tecnologia, cultura ed ecologia, nella convinzione che la qualità dell'ambiente costruito e naturale possa essere raggiunta solo attraverso un rigoroso e approfondito processo di ricerca, progettazione e realizzazione, alla luce di un approccio multidisciplinare e multiscalare.

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The Right to Nature (ENG ED.)

For a new urban landscape Emanuele Bortolotti, Paolo Palmulli with Alessandro Frigerio The Right to Nature is a new chapter of reflection and work of the AG&P greenscape, centered on the current and renewed relationship between man and nature, and the consequent transformation of our cities through new ways of living, inhabiting, working with nature and the landscape as the protagonist, in every area, at all project scales, as a social balancer and activator of a new urban sociality. The relationship between man and nature today is an urgent issue in the debate on the contemporary city, but it still has to be truly explored, defined, and built. Through out seven main topics – Sociality/Collectivity, Infrastructure, Inhabit, Work/Welfare, Regeneration, Care, Heritage –, the book explores contemporary urban landscape issues at the different scales of the project, in the light of the relationship between human beings and nature. The concept is explored through examples, reflections, and projects designed by AG&P greenscape. In dialogue with other architects and committees – among others, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Stefano Boeri Architetti, Credite Agricole, Fondazione Riccardo Catella –, the book underlines the importance of a shared quality of the daily urban landscape as a key quality of our contemporary cities. Glimpse AG&P greenscape has always adopted a point of view that aims to break down the barriers between landscape, architecture, technology, culture and ecology, in the belief that quality of the built and natural environment can only be attained through a rigorous and thorough process of research, design and realization, in the light of a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach. Buy Italian Edition

Felix Candela From Mexico City to Chicago

Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete Alexander Eisenschmidt Candela’s move from Mexico City to Chicago, despite his professional success, is rarely discussed. This book investigates the political and economic conditions that influenced his work and motivated his departure, offering a more nuanced understanding of his contributions to mid-20th-century architecture. Unlike existing literature, it examines Candela’s work in both Mexico and the US, highlighting his role as an architect who shaped new architectural spaces with smooth curves and rough concrete. Combining historical research, oral histories, contemporary theories, construction photographs, essays, interviews, and translations of Candela’s writings, this book reveals his unique position in Latin-American and US architecture. It explores the conditions in both countries, such as Mexico's low wages and cheap timber fostering concrete experimentation in the 1950s, and how the 1968 student demonstrations in Mexico City and Chicago's architectural legacy influenced Candela. The book also delves into Candela’s "Chicago period" through essays based on archival research and interviews with his colleagues and students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, presenting new findings to illuminate the complex factors shaping his work during the 1970s. With Contributions of Alexander Eisenschmidt, Juan Ignacio del Cueto, Nader Tehrani, Kathryn O’Rourke, Jonathan Miller, George F. Flaherty, Stuart Cohen, Geoff Goldberg, Ero Aggelopoulou-Amiridis, William Baker, Bob Bruegmann, Elisa María Teresa Drago Quaglia, Stanley Tigerman (in the order of appearance).

Spatialization Takes Command. Metaverse Urbanism

Notes on the Future of The Internet, Urbanism, and Life as We Live It Firas Safieddine By weaving together a range of topics, the book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of the Internet, and its next generation - The Spatial Internet- and explores the current technosphere and terminology necessary to comprehend the metaverse. It creatively delves into unique social, cultural, technological, economic, and emerging urban phenomena, providing a comprehensive guide to designing and building metaverse urban environments. The author draws upon their knowledge of architecture, urbanism, and spatial design to present the metaverse not as a distant, abstract concept, but as a tangible reality that will revolutionize how we live, work, learn, earn, socialize, and play. It is a seminal work at the intersection of technology, media, urbanism, the future of the built environment, and life as we live it. With Contributions of Spatial Forces

Houses in Forest Clearings

LCLA office. Photographed by Luis Callejas Luis Callejas One hundred photographs of houses in clearings by Luis Callejas. These photos are accompanied by drawings and three parallel conversations between Luis Callejas and Matteo Ghidoni, Elisa Cattaneo, and Jørgen Tandberg. The photographs were taken during three trips between Norway and Colombia. Most photos were done using the same 35 mm lens, avoiding wide angles encompassing each small space's totality. The conversations were triggered later by the photographs as opposed to direct experience; these images and conversations address the parallels between the construction of a house, a clearing, and the construction of an image. The houses were designed by LCLA office in found, edited, and constructed forest clearings. Luis Callejas in conversation with: Matteo Ghidoni. On rituals, geometry, and the night Jørgen Tandberg. On form, structure, and construction Elissa Cataneo. On archetypes, clearings, and grammar

A Village and its Double (ENG ED.)

Dominique Perrault This book is perfectly anchored in French and international current affairs. The book explores the vision of renowned French architect Dominique Perrault, who designed an Olympic and Paralympic village at the crossroads of concerns such as legacy, site reversibility and the relationship with the existing territory. He discusses the history of Olympic villages in recent decades, explains the choice of the Paris site, its past, the process of Paris' bid for the 2024 Games, Dominique Perrault's guiding concept for the design of the village, and the project's 12 ambitions. It is a window through which Greater Paris takes shape... Richly illustrated with photographs, graphics and plans, this book is aimed at designers and the general public alike. Its publication, a few months before the start of the Games, amplifies its impact by exploiting current events. With Contributions of Frédéric Prot Buy French Edition

Un Village et son Double (FR ED.)

MOS Laboratory

Housing Laboratory / Laboratorio de Vivienda

Apan, Hidalgo, Méjico Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS In 2017, Mexico’s Institute for the National Fund for Workers’ (INFONAVIT) Center for Research for Sustainable Development launched a program to solicit new approaches to affordable housing. To better understand the possibilities, and to better educate developers, workers, and students about the research, INFONAVIT engaged with MOS to develop a master plan for a campus of 32 built prototypes and design an education center to promote awareness and study of workers’ housing typologies. The selection process revealed various categories and themes for which the projects could be classified. Some projects rethink the fundamentals of low-income housing’s spatial organization (corridors, courtyards, roofs), some rework labor and construction, and some recast structure or material. The forms of these works are generally economical but, unlike early-modernist projects at the Weissenhof Estate, their attitude is not one of a radical break. If anything, these works relate to the vast, varied world of contemporary vernacular construction – the majority of the built world that Architecture glosses over. Each house responds to different climates, each house maintains their designed solar orientation, each house exhibits potential for growth by aggregation, repetition, or various strategies of extension, infill, and addition. All of the houses retain their individual identities within the larger campus. Presenting the 32 projects selected and built, including research, drawings, and descriptions by the architects, and an essay by Canadian Centre for Architecture Director Giovanna Borasi titled “A Large Urban Garden Where You Can Learn About Architecture,” Laboratorio de Vivienda considers the problem of low-income housing by bringing thoughtful attention and expertise of architects, considering how these proposals, assembled into a collective, would work together toward creating not an estate but a community for Apan. For, given the limited resources of such works, each decision gains greater significance and has greater impact on the design and on the life of its inhabitants. With Contributions of Carlos Zedillo Velasco, Giovanna Borasi, DVCH DeVillarChacon Arquitectos, Frida Escobedo, Dellekamp Arquitectos Derek Dellekamp & Jachen Schleich, Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura, Ambrosi | Etchegaray, Zooburbia, Zago Architecture, Taller | Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo, Taller de Arquitectura X, Griffin Enright Architects, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto, Enrique Norten | TEN Arquitectos, Pita & Bloom, BGP Arquitectura, Zeller & Moye, Accidental Estudio de Arquitectura, Nuño – Mac Gregor – De Buen Arquitectos SC, SAYA+ Arquitectos, Cano|Vera Arquitectura, Fernanda Canales, RNThomsen ARCHITECTURE, PRODUCTORA, Agraz Arquitectos SC, Rojkind Arquitectos, Tactic-A, GAETA-SPRINGALL Arquitectos, TALLER ADG, Taller 4:00 A.M., CRO Studio, JC Arquitectura, DCPP

A Book on Making a Petite École

Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS As part of the 2019 Biennale d'architecture et de paysage in Versailles, France, MOS constructed Petite École, a small, open-air pavilion to house educational workshops for children. It is a place for looking and making, and for making and looking, constructed with 688 aluminum pieces modeled, flattened, cut, folded, prefabricated, shipped, and then assembled onsite. It is made to be taken down and reassembled elsewhere. It is designed to be easily understood, made of simple building elements: a long, low roof with columns and stacked beams holding it up. Undertaken during various design workshops, single page design exercises written by architects were assembled into a large book and given to children. A Book on Making a Petite École features an expanded collection of these exercises. Each exercise includes playful illustrations of its steps, starting a conversation about how designers look at, think about, teach, and imagine the foundations of design. Alongside these, the design process of the pavilion is included, as its own design exercise, from colorful illustrations of each step of the pavilion’s construction, to actual construction photographs and photographs of the completed pavilion being occupied. A Book on Making a Petite École considers basic questions of design pedagogy, abstraction, accessibility, experimentation, and equity, while considering and reconsidering architecture. With Contributions of: Djamel Klouche, Jean-Christophe Quinton, Sebastián Adamo & Marcelo Faiden, Yussef Agbo-Ola, Sir David Adjaye, Xavi Laida Aguirre, Stan Allen, Benjamin Aranda, Assemble, Tatiana Bilbao, Bureau Spectacular, Marlon Blackwell, Galo Canizares & Stephanie Sang Delgado, Sean Canty, Jan De Vylder, Ambra Fabi & Kersten Geers, fala, First Office, Antón García-Abril & Débora Mesa, Go Hasegawa, Steven Holl & Dimitra Tsachrelia, Wonne Ickx/PRODUCTORA, Florian Idenburg & Jing Liu, Sam Jacob, Andrés Jaque, Johnston Marklee, Ladi’Sasha Jones, l’AUC, LEFT Architects, Toshiko Mori, Catherine Mosbach, Umberto Napolitano, Daniel Norell & Einar Rodhe, Lütjens Padmanabhan, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Mónica Ponce de León, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Bolle Tham & Martin Videgård, UrbanLab, Welcome Projects, WORKac with Ayah Wood

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