The Caring City

Health, Economy, and Environment Izaskun Chinchilla Moreno This book invites us to rethink architectural and urban models, prioritizing not so much the technical, formal and abstract knowledge sought by urban planners, as the public and civic dimension of citizens’ experience when they try to care for themselves, for each other or for the environment. After decades of industrialization, our cities, in their physical and governmental dimensions, are productivity-oriented places. Cities are, nonetheless, a more hostile environment for non-productive activities: being able to choose where to sit and rest, use a public toilet, drink clean water without paying or breathe unpolluted air. The privilege that productive activities have enjoyed and those who exercise them has led to the denial of the various biological and subjective characteristics of its inhabitants and the multidimensional character of the city, becoming a cultural principle and a political practice. The Caring City opens up an extensive field of alternatives that can present a uniting vision of the economy, the environment and the health of a diverse community. The translation of this work has had the participation of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E.

Design for Biocities

Global Contest to Rethink Our Habitat from the Body to the City. Vicente Guallart, Laia Piferré The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) calls its 9th Advanced Architecture Contest as a global reflection to rethink human settlements at a time when our natural environments and the human habitats are more clearly intertwined. The planet is immersed in a fast process of urbanization while we are simultaneously facing a serious climate crisis that must be addressed. We look to the model of Biocities, cities that follow the principles of ecological principles in order to promote life and biodiversity, to provide us with potential design solutions. How can we reimagine our cities as Biocities, capable of creating an ecologically attuned and reciprocal relationship with nature? This year’s competition challenges students and professionals from all over the world to propose how to design urban spaces, cities, buildings, objects, or solutions of any scale, directed towards the transition to Biocities. These responses should explore how we might adapt to the changing relations between human and natural systems in a moment of climate crisis. Cities have always reflected the civilizations that built them, and at this critical moment where climate change is transforming our living environment, we must rethink our position of domination in relation to all that surrounds us. To respond to rising concerns of the bursting of planetary boundaries, which regulate the stability and resilience of the earth system as it currently stands, we urge the need to simultaneously look at nature based as well as advanced technological solutions to reimagine resilient cities of the future. The contest encourages participants to propose a design at any scale, anywhere in the world, that reflects different cultural, environmental, economic, or social conditions. EBOOK VERSION

Merging City and Nature (ENG ED.)

30 Commitments to Combat Climate Change Batlleiroig "We have chosen the motto “Merging city and nature” to encompass our improvement goals in each one of the actions we develop. We work with three different disciplines: Urban Planning, Landscape and Architecture, attempting to be extremely specialized in each one, without disregarding the unavoidable transversality required today to develop any intervention. Climate emergency is currently our main transversality, that which must guide all our actions." Batlleiroig Buy Spanish Edition EBOOK VERSION

Fusionando Ciudad y Naturaleza (SP ED.)

30 compromisos para combatir el cambio climático Batlleiroig We have chosen the motto “Merging city and nature” to encompass our improvement goals in each one of the actions we develop. We work with three different disciplines: Urban Planning, Landscape and Architecture, attempting to be extremely specialized in each one, without disregarding the unavoidable transversality required today to develop any intervention. Climate emergency is currently our main transversality, that which must guide all our actions. Buy English Edition EBOOK VERSION

Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City

Nina Rappaport Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this new hybrid will look like and how can it support new entrepreneurs, equitable jobs, and vital urban forms? How can hybrid models change with new technologies, sustainable manufacturing, and advanced production systems to create new open city? Can we break the planning and land-use patterns of segregated zoning by class and function and encourage mixed-use zoning that transforms new building and zoning codes and this the mix in the city? These questions and more are addressed in Hybrid Factory / Hybrid City, through a collection of essays by participants in the eponymous symposium organized by Nina Rappaport at the Future Urban Legacy Lab of the Politecnico di Torino. Divided into two sections, the essays describes projects and research by architects and urbanists regarding the aura of industry and its smells, its place in relationship to the body, building structures, logistics centers, reused factory buildings, and their current and future potential for mixed-use. Social and economic equity can be integrated through light manufacturing jobs, community uses, and affordable housing. Considering how we can make 1+1 = 3, the book concludes with a roundtable discussion among the authors reflecting on urban production during COVID-19 and the new “16-minute” city. With Contributions of: Nina Rappaport, Bram Aerts (TRANS architectuur | stedenbouw), Frank Barkow (Barkow Leibinger Architects), Cristina Bianchetti (Politecnico di Torino), Giovanna Fossa (Politecnico di Milano), Nicholas Gilliland (Tollila + Gilliland Atelier), Dieter Leyssen and Eva de Bruyn (51N4E), Nicola Russi (Politecnico di Torino and Laboratorio Permanente), Matteo Robiglio (Politecnico di Torino and TRA), Maria Paola Repellino (Politecnico di Torino), Markus Schâefer (Hosoya Schâefer Architects), Giulia Setti (Politecnico di Milano), Ward Verbakel (plusoffice architects), Ianira Vassallo (Politecnico di Torino), and Juan Lucas Young (Sauerbruch Hutton).

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

Mi nombre es Universo (SP ED.)

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface of Things Roberto Ontañón, Cave Performances María Muñoz, Move Before Thinking Marc Balcells, The Art of Looking at the Sky Joaquim Sales, A table Full of Stories Rodolfo Hässler, The Most Profound Expression Jaume Bertranpetit, Revealing Genes Cesc Gelabert, Dancing Life Sunetra Gupta, The Importance of Refusing to Choose Stephen Noonan, The Art of Teaching Marta Llorente, An Immaterial Material David Jou, Cosmic Thinking With the collaboration of: Roald Hoffmann, Xavier Bosch, Amarjit Chandan, Carlota Subirós, Jean-Louis Froment, Salimata Wade, Jorge Ventocilla, Maria Nadotti, Jaume Casals, Holly Fairbank, Irene Martín, Noni Benegas, Santiago Álvarez, Thane Lund, Rosa Olivares Buy Catalan Edition Buy English Edition

El meu nom és Univers (CAT ED.)

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface of Things Roberto Ontañón, Cave Performances María Muñoz, Move Before Thinking Marc Balcells, The Art of Looking at the Sky Joaquim Sales, A table Full of Stories Rodolfo Hässler, The Most Profound Expression Jaume Bertranpetit, Revealing Genes Cesc Gelabert, Dancing Life Sunetra Gupta, The Importance of Refusing to Choose Stephen Noonan, The Art of Teaching Marta Llorente, An Immaterial Material David Jou, Cosmic Thinking With the collaboration of: Roald Hoffmann, Xavier Bosch, Amarjit Chandan, Carlota Subirós, Jean-Louis Froment, Salimata Wade, Jorge Ventocilla, Maria Nadotti, Jaume Casals, Holly Fairbank, Irene Martín, Noni Benegas, Santiago Álvarez, Thane Lund, Rosa Olivares Buy English edition Buy Spanish edition

My Name Is Universe (ENG ED.)

Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity. Interviews to: Jordi Balló, Capturing the real Priyamvada Natarajan, Exploring Darkness Amandine Beyer, Flying with Our Feet on the Ground Eugènia Balcells, Re-enchanting the World Federico Mayor Zaragoza, A Factory for Freedom Simon McBurney, Another Narrative Is Possible Eulàlia Bosch, A Welcoming Space Sally Potter, On the Surface of Things Roberto Ontañón, Cave Performances María Muñoz, Move Before Thinking Marc Balcells, The Art of Looking at the Sky Joaquim Sales, A table Full of Stories Rodolfo Hässler, The Most Profound Expression Jaume Bertranpetit, Revealing Genes Cesc Gelabert, Dancing Life Sunetra Gupta, The Importance of Refusing to Choose Stephen Noonan, The Art of Teaching Marta Llorente, An Immaterial Material David Jou, Cosmic Thinking With the collaboration of: Roald Hoffmann, Xavier Bosch, Amarjit Chandan, Carlota Subirós, Jean-Louis Froment, Salimata Wade, Jorge Ventocilla, Maria Nadotti, Jaume Casals, Holly Fairbank, Irene Martín, Noni Benegas, Santiago Álvarez, Thane Lund, Rosa Olivares Buy Spanish edition Buy Catalan edition

Live Centre of Information (IT ED.)

Da Pompidou a Beaubourg (1968–1971) Boris Hamzeian When, on July 19, 1971, Jean Prouvé and Robert Bordaz unveiled the competition-winning design for the Centre Beaubourg in Paris, now known as the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, press and public reaction was harsh. The project architects, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini, were considered “unknowns”; its promoters, the engineers of the firm Ove Arup & Partners, were simply forgotten; the original idea of a “Live Centre of Information,” with its sequences of flexible platforms suspended over an open-air piazza for the crowd, was misrepresented and reduced to the image of a “metallic dam” dropped in the heart of Paris; the jury, which featured figures of the caliber of Prouvé, Oscar Niemeyer, and Willem Sandberg, was believed to have been dominated by the charismatic Philip Johnson; the man who initiated the competition, President Georges Pompidou of France, was believed to be unaware of the jury’s methods and forced unwillingly to accept a winner he didn’t support. Fifty years after those events, through the tool of the chronicle and recourse to all available documentary sources and dozens of testimonies, it is time to analyze these false certainties and trace the genealogy of this famous and still controversial work: from President Pompidou’s original idea of a monument to reinvigorate French architecture in the international debate to the complex origins of a project in which the aspirations and avant-garde impulses of architects and engineers delicately coexisted, to the reconstruction of the complex political plots and ideological visions that lurked behind the jury’s deliberations. The book features a preface by Laurent Le Bon, president of the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, an introduction by Roberto Gargiani, Professor Emeritus at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne-EPFL, and a previously unpublished interview by Boris Hamzeian with Renzo Piano Buy English Edition Buy French Edition

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