INTERNATIONAL NEW TITLES SPRING 2024
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4/5 Xiangning Li, Aric Chen, Lei Qin (eds.)
Arata Isozaki In Formation
6/7 Robert Jan van Pelt
The Barrack, 1572–1914 Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture
8/9 Matthew Skjonsberg
Living Cities Three Centuries of Park Systems
10/11 Daniel Zamarbide, Galliane Zamarbide (eds.)
BUREAU—Short Stories Disclosed Architecture
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12/13 Leonore Daum, Christian Penzel, Friedrich Tellbüscher, Martin Valier (eds.)
Penzel Valier Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024
14/15 Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partner (eds.)
Food for Architects Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz—Exponents of Excellent Housing
16/17 François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Patrick Heiz
De la verticalité
18/19 Tosin Oshinowo, Julie Cirelli (eds.)
Field Notes on Scarcity
20/21 Yung Ho Chang (ed.)
Maison de la Chine A Building by Atelier FCJZ
22/23 Antoine de Perrot, Mansoureh Aalaii (eds.)
Transversal Territory Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches in Urban Research
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Arata Isozaki (1931–2022) undoubtedly ranks among Japan’s, and arguably the world’s, most distinguished architects. He ran his own firm in Tokyo from 1963 and realized buildings in many countries, as well as holding teaching appointments at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities. He has created a body of work that has constantly evolved and transformed over decades. His best-known designs include the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Fukuoka, the Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the Berliner Volksbank office building on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, the Palasport Olimpico in Turin, and the Allianz Tower (Il Dritto) in Milan. Isozaki was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Prize in 2019.
Arata Isozaki built bridges between cultures, taking Japanese architecture around the world and Western ideas to Japan. This book offers a new comprehensive survey of his entire career.
This book is the first new monograph on Arata Isozaki in 15 years. Conceived in close collaboration with Arata Isozaki & Associates, the book features photographs, plans, model images, drawings, and watercolors from all periods of Isozaki’s career. Arranged thematically, it follows key concepts of the architect’s creative development from the 1970s throughout his lifetime. Introductory essays round off this comprehensive survey of an outstanding architectural oeuvre.
Xiangning Li is a professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Shanghai’s Tongji University. Aric Chen is the director of the Nieuwe Instituut museum of architecture, design, and digital culture in Rotterdam. Lei Qin is director of Archipelago gallery and publishing house in Shanghai.
ISBN 9783038603702
The first new monograph in 15 years on Arata Isozaki, one of Japan’s most distinguished architects and 2019 Pritzker Prize laureate Covers Isozaki’s entire career and the full range of his vast body of work Richly illustrated with photographs, plans, drawings, and watercolors by Isozaki, many of which are published here for the first time Explains the key concepts relevant to Isozaki’s thinking and designs
Xiangning Li, Aric Chen, Lei Qin (eds.)
Arata Isozaki In Formation Contributions by Arata Isozaki, Koji Ichikawa, Shigeru Matsui, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Naohiko Hino, Xiangning Li, Qian Hu, and Aric Chen Book design by typo_d In cooperation with Archipelago, Shanghai Paperback approx. 272 pages, 159 color and 161 b/w illustrations 28.5 × 28.5 cm 978-33-03860-370-2 English sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 52.00 | $ 55.00 June 2024 (Europe) | September 2024 (US)
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The Barrack, 1572–1914 tells the little-known history of a building type that many people used to register as an alien interloper in conventionally built-up areas. The barrack is a mostly lightweight construction, a hybrid between shack, tent, and traditional building. It is a highly efficient structure that sometimes also proves to be extremely durable. Easy to erect and to take down, it is—since the introduction of railways and later motor vehicles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—also easy to transplant from one location to another. Originating as a standardized accommodation in the late 16th century, the barrack became a mass-produced utility of military and civilian mobilization in the 19th century, providing immediate shelter for soldiers as well as for displaced persons, disaster victims, or prisoners. The barrack has played a decisive role in shaping the political space of modernity.
The barrack as a building type played a decisive role in shaping the political space of modernity. This book traces its little-known history.
Robert Jan van Pelt traces nearly 350 years of barrack history up to 1914. That year, with the outbreak of the Great War, proved to be a turning point in the perception of the barrack, away from pragmatic emergency shelter and towards a more sinister forced confinement. Richly illustrated with some 250 images, van Pelt’s book records the traditions of barrack design and the technological inventiveness that went into it in the late 19th century.
Robert Jan van Pelt is a Dutch author, architectural historian, and Holocaust scholar. He teaches as a Professor of Cultural History in the Faculty of Architecture at Waterloo University in Ontario, Canada.
ISBN 9783038603658
Tells the little-known history of the barrack from the late 16th century to 1914 Demonstrates how warfare, medicine, and emergency aid intersect in the history of architecture Offers a reappraisal of the barrack’s significance today, when more people than ever are forced to live in temporary accommodation The barrack as a building type played a decisive role in shaping the political space of modernity
Robert Jan van Pelt
The Barrack, 1572–1914 Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture Book design by Sandra Doeller Paperback approx. 480 pages, 258 color and 19 b/w illustrations 16 × 24 cm 978-3-03860-365-8 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00 April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
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The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design—a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good—experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as “green armatures," hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice of urban design.
Civic design: a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good, maintaining healthy ecological habitats, and offering intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities through the creation of park systems.
Matthew Skjonsberg is a lecturer in the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design program at EPFL in Lausanne and the director of Praxis Institute, a Swiss-based transdisciplinary experimental research initiative.
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First book in more than a century on the topic of park systems and civic design, the practice of urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good A chronological survey of civic design, featuring 30 park systems on five continents from three centuries A reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice of urban planning in the light of current initiatives Park systems are highly topical against the backdrop of climate change and the associated ecological and economic challenges
Matthew Skjonsberg
Living Cities Three Centuries of Park Systems With a contribution by Janet Parks Book design by Studio Marie Lusa Hardback approx. 304 pages, 186 color and 114 b/w illustrations 30 × 24.5 cm 978-3-03860-363-4 English sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00 May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
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Geneva- and Lisbon-based design firm BUREAU is directed by architects Daniel Zamarbide and Carine Pimenta, and visual artist, designer, and art educator Galliane Zamarbide. They operate at the intersection of architecture, scenography, design, landscape design, and education. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on building new and converting existing structures, interior design and furniture, exhibition design, inhabitable sculptures, and temporary pavilions. Their buildings and interventions feature spatial experiments, unusual shapes and perspectives, and play with the concept of time as well. BUREAU thus transcends the traditional boundaries of architecture, design, visual art, architectural teaching, and cultural education. BUREAU—Short Stories is the first survey of the firm’s work to date. Brief texts—some narrative, some descriptive and categorizing—are contributed by architects and researchers Fabrizio Gallanti, Amir Halabi, André Tavares, Marina Otero Verzier, and Ava Violich-Kennedy; curators and critics Julia Albani and Tirdad Zolghadr; designer and curator Alexandra Midal; and by Daniel Zamarbide. Some 360 images, as well as concise information on the depicted buildings and projects by BUREAU, round off this beautiful book.
A collection of images and texts that illustrates the work of Geneva- and Lisbon-based experimental architecture and design firm BUREAU.
Daniel Zamarbide is an architect and cofounder of Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and design firm BUREAU. He is also codirector of ALICE laboratory and Superstudio at EPFL in Lausanne and regularly lectures at international schools and universities, such as ETH Zürich, the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, HEAD—Genève, ECAL Lausanne, and ÉNSA Versailles. He also contributes to journals and magazines, such as A+U, C3 magazine, and Wallpaper. Galliane Zamarbide studied visual communication and photography and is a cofounder of Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and design firm BUREAU. She also works as an art educator at various museums.
ISBN 9783038603733
First book on the work of Geneva- and Lisbonbased experimental architecture and design firm BUREAU Offers insight into BUREAU’s thinking, experimentation, design, and navigation across the fields of architecture and design, landscape design, visual art, architectural teaching, and cultural education BUREAU’s work in all fields is highly regarded and recognized worldwide
Daniel Zamarbide, Galliane Zamarbide (eds.)
BUREAU—Short Stories Disclosed Architecture Book design by Norm Paperback approx. 248 pages, 352 color and 11 b/w illustrations 16 × 24 cm 978-3-03860-373-3 English sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 45.00 April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
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Founded in Zurich in 2008 by architect Christian Penzel and structural engineer Martin Valier, Penzel Valier have established themselves as one of Switzerland's leading design firms. In the past 15 years, they have realized projects that uniquely demonstrate the interplay between the two disciplines. Their portfolio comprises a wide range of different typologies, including transportation and infrastructure buildings, office and sports structures, as well as housing, interior design, and objects.
Penzel Valier is one of Switzerland’s leading architecture and structural engineering firms. This is their first major monograph.
This first monograph on Penzel Valier combines the fundamentals of their design principles with a presentation of their key buildings and projects. Essays by distinguished authors examine the firm’s work from different perspectives. A detailed illustrated catalog of their entire built, unrealized, and ongoing projects from the years 2007–24 rounds off this beautiful volume.
Christian Penzel and Martin Valier founded their Zurich-based firm Penzel Valier in 2008. Penzel studied design at HFBK in Hamburg and graduated in architecture from TU Berlin. Valier graduated as a structural engineer from HTW Chur (today University of Applied Sciences Graubünden) in Chur, Switzerland. Leonore Daum holds degrees in Architecture from TU Berlin and the University of California Los Angeles, Friedrich Tellbüscher graduated in Architecture from Leibniz University in Hanover. They are both managing partners with Penzel Valier in Zurich.
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First monograph on Penzel Valier, one of Switzerland’s leading design firms Uniquely demonstrates the close interplay of architecture and structural engineering that marks Penzel Valier’s designs Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished photographs and visualizations, plans, and trimetric projections With a complete illustrated catalog of Penzel Valier’s built, unrealized, and ongoing projects
Leonore Daum, Christian Penzel, Friedrich Tellbüscher, Martin Valier (eds.)
Penzel Valier Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024 Book design by Bruno Margreth Paperback approx. 520 pages, 641 color and 442 b/w illustrations 23.5 × 28.5 cm 978-3-03860-367-2 English 978-3-03860-366-5 German sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 65.00 | $ 75.00 May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
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The lavish five-volume set Food for Architects is dedicated to the buildings and cooking of renowned Zurich-based firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners. As enthusiastic housing designers, they have been searching for both the perfect floor plan and the perfect spaghetti for three decades.
Zurich-based architects Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz offer an invitation for dinner: five delicious courses spanning good housing design, 30 years of Zurich urban development, and innovative architecture.
Volume 1 of this first comprehensive monograph on the firm’s work brings together brief personal texts on the various types of rooms in a house or apartment as well as other aspects of living. Volume 2 offers insights into the evolution and design methods of Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners, documenting as well 65 key buildings and projects from their portfolio. Volume 3 features floor plans of a total of 168 furnished apartments with concise comments, interspersed with recipes for 12 spaghetti dishes. In a photo essay, volume 4 introduces the inhabitants of 11 apartments from various realized buildings, who also speak about their homes in brief interviews. The dessert of this fivecourse menu is the concluding volume 5, featuring a conversation with the firm’s four partners—Jakob Steib, Patrick Gmür, Michael Geschwentner, and Matthias Kyburz—as they discuss topics that are key to their architectural work.
Zurich-based Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners were formed by the merger of Patrick Gmür Architekten (founded in 1989 as Gmür Lüscher Gmür), where Michael Geschwentner was already a collaborator, with the studio of Jakob Steib (founded in 1987) and his collaborator Matthias Kyburz. Working under their current name since 2013, Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners have gained wide recognition for their highly innovative housing designs.
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First comprehensive monograph on the renowned Zurich-based architecture firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners Five richly illustrated volumes offer a survey of 30 years of excellent housing design in and around Zurich With floor plans of 168 apartments on a uniform scale of 1:100 as well as characterizations of 40 room types in residential buildings A reference work for architects with a special interest in housing design and innovative floor plans
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Food for Architects Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz—Exponents of Excellent Housing Book design by Sibylle Kanalz, Jürg Schönenberger, and Nora Spaniol Five volumes, paperback in slipcase 822 pages, 778 color and 360 b/w illustrations 22 × 28 cm 978-3-03860-360-3 English 978-3-03860-359-7 German sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 75.00 | $ 85.00 February 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
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The densification of our cities is an imperative that inevitably brings the topic of new high-rise buildings and the addition of stories to existing buildings to the foreground of the discourse. Architecture and urban design must increasingly address the issue of verticality at all stages of planning, design, and composition. Social and cultural aspects must be considered in this process as well. De la verticalité combines two elements: a case study on highrise buildings in Zurich and an explorative essay on the subject of verticality in philosophy, culture, and society. Together the threads form a dual commentary that highlights the challenges posed by the transformation of our cities. Illustrated with numerous spectacular montages and visualizations designed to broaden our current ideas on the topic, this volume, which comes from the laboratory of acclaimed Swiss architecture firm Made in, also offers concrete proposals aimed at architects and urban planners, politicians and flâneurs alike.
Also available, awarded as one of 2023’s Most Beautiful German Books:
François Charbonnet, Patrick Heiz, Marine de Dardel, Steffen Hägele, Francisco Moura Veiga (eds.) Portraits Architectural Parables 978-3-03860-309-2 English sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 £ 85.00 | $ 110.00 ISBN 9783038603092
Multilayered reflections on high-rise structures and verticality in culture and society by acclaimed Genevaand Zurich-based architecture firm Made in.
Marine de Dardel is an architect, visual artist, writer, and editor. She works as a lecturer and researcher at ETH Zürich’s Department of Architecture.
François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz are the founding partners of Geneva- and Zurich-based architecture firm Made in. They also jointly teach as professors of Architecture and Design at ETH Zürich’s Department of Architecture.
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A multilayered commentary on high-rise buildings, urban change, and urban densification Combines a case study on high-rise buildings in Zurich with an essay on the subject of verticality in philosophy, culture, and society Illustrated with spectacular montages and visualizations that inspire and expand our current ideas on the topic Originates from the laboratory of acclaimed Swiss architecture firm Made in
François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel, Patrick Heiz
De la verticalité Book design by Atlas Studio Paperback approx. 128 pages, 4 color and 96 b/w illustrations 15.6 × 21 cm 978-3-03860-369-6 French 978-3-03860-368-9 German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 45.00 May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
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Scarcity of resources as a stimulator for innovation, inspiration, and ingenuity: reflections, poems, visual essays, and dialogues contributed by 60 scholars and practitioners of architecture from across the Global South.
Scarcity of resources in all forms is commonly portrayed in a negative light. Yet these conditions—which have long been a reality in many extreme climate conditions across the Global South and are increasingly becoming a global reality—often stimulate an abundance of innovation, inspiration, and ingenuity. Permanence has created a climate crisis, with spaces constructed with non-degradable materials, resource extraction without active replenishment, and buildings designed for a single-eternal use. Our present reality is marked by a global pandemic, violent conflicts, and the looming threat of climate change-induced environmental disasters. Yet there remains an optimism about the creative possibilities that arise within these constraints. Field Notes on Scarcity, published in conjunction with the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, examines what scarcity truly looks like on the ground, and the challenges and opportunities it presents across architecture and design. 60 leading architects, artists, authors, curators, designers, photographers, researchers, and theoreticians from across the Global South—including Lesley Lokko, Yinka Shonibare, Formafantasma, Rahul Mehrotra, Olalekan Jeyifous, Abeer Seikaly, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, Chitra Vishwanath, and Deema Assaf—contribute reflections, poems, visual essays, and dialogues exploring what scarcity represents, what it inspires, and what it reveals.
Tosin Oshinowo is an architect, creative entrepreneur, public speaker, and author based in Lagos, Nigeria, where she runs her own design consultancy firm cmDesign Atelier. She is the curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Julie Cirelli is a Stockholm-based American journalist and editor specializing in architecture and design.
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Scarcity of resources is increasingly becoming a global reality This is the first book to address cultures of re-use, re-appropriation, innovation and collaboration in architecture and urban design that arise from conditions of scarcity 60 leading architects, artists, authors, curators, designers, photographers, researchers, and theoreticians share their perspectives on how to build a sustainable future in our precarious present Highlights the lessons to be learned from practitioners and communities in the Global South, where long-standing traditions prioritize an understanding of impermanence and an inventive responsiveness to scarcity of resources The official publication of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial (November 11, 2023 until March 10, 2024)
Tosin Oshinowo, Julie Cirelli (eds.)
Field Notes on Scarcity Book design by Morcos Key In cooperation with the Sharjah Architecture Triennial Paperback 160 pages, 156 color and 13 b/w illustrations 17 × 24 cm 978-3-03860-357-3 English / Arabic sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00 Available (Europe) | March 2024 (US)
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In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital’s famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed by Beijing-based Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (Atelier FCJZ) and realized in collaboration with the French architecture firm Coldefy, the building continues the tradition of national pavilions within the CIUP. The Maison de la Chine’s design bears the DNA of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly acknowledges its inspiration by Le Corbusier. This book documents the building and its design process in rich detail through sketches, drawings, plans, and photographs. Architectural historian and curator Martino Stierli places the Maison de la Chine in the context of the evolution of contemporary Chinese architecture. Yung Ho Chang and Yishi Cheng, respectively the founding partner of and project architect at Atelier FCJZ, discuss conceptual and technical aspects of the design. The volume is completed with an essay by American critic Ariel Genadt, who relates the building to the site’s extraordinary history and the culture within which it was created.
The convergence of two cultures in form and concept: the new Maison de la Chine in the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP).
Yung Ho Chang is a founding partner of Beijingbased architecture firm Atelier FCJZ and professor emeritus at the MIT’s Department of Architecture in Cambridge, MA. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was a Pritzker Prize jury member 2011–17.
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First book on the new Maison de la Chine, the latest addition to the famous Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP), opened in 2023 Documents the building and its design and construction process through sketches, drawings, plans, and photographs With essays by distinguished curators and critics Martino Stierli and Ariel Genadt The Maison de la Chine is the first European building designed by the leading Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ
Yung Ho Chang (ed.)
Maison de la Chine A Building by Atelier FCJZ Contributions by Martino Stierli, Ariel Genadt, Yishi Cheng, and Yung Ho Chang. Photographs by Tian Fangfang Book design by Mia Wang Paperback approx. 120 pages, 30 color and 8 b/w illustrations 20.5 × 23.5 cm 978-3-03860-364-1 English / French sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00 April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
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Transversal Territory is a laboratory of urban, environmental, and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary and participatory research on the relationship between our consciousness, our bodies, and our built and natural environments. Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and reflections on—urban space through performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding of urban space, and at creating a new imagination of the latter—an augmented reality.
How do we experience our built and natural environments with our body? This book introduces new research based on performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations in urban space.
Antoine de Perrot (aka Onzgi) is an architect, visual artist, and urban researcher. He is a lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where he directs the Transversal Territory laboratory.
Transversal Territory’s innovative research is conducted in annual workshops, in which students and local residents collaborate, and subsequent public presentations of the results. This volume features 20 performances and installations realized in 2022 in Mendrisio’s Rime-Brech neighborhood, a typical suburban area with a mix of industrial structures, social housing, shopping malls, fast-food outlets, parking lots, wastelands, and highways. It is conceived as a map of Mendrisio that spreads across the pages to recontextualize the genius loci in book format.
Mansoureh Aalaii is a Zurich-based ophthalmologist, choreographer, and dancer, and a lecturer in the Transversal Territory laboratory at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. She also teaches at dance schools such as Tanzhaus Zürich and Micadanes in Paris.
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Documents innovative architectural research at the Università della Svizzera italiana’s renowned Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland Introduces new transdisciplinary and participatory approaches in architectural and urban design education and research Demonstrates how performative bodywork and on-site artistic installations can transcend conventional paradigms of perception and understanding of urban space and create an augmented reality
Antoine de Perrot, Mansoureh Aalaii (eds.)
Transversal Territory Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches in Urban Research Book design by Noa Perez and Lila Zoggagh In collaboration with Mendrisio Academy Press Paperback approx. 144 pages, 80 color illustrations 21 × 28 cm 978-3-03860-372-6 English / Italian sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00 April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
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