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Suprarural: Atlas of Rural Protocols
IN THE SPANISH EDITION
in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas
Ciro Najle, Lluís Ortega This book is an Atlas of rural protocols of two parallel regions: the Argentine Pampas and the American Midwest, understanding both as coherent pieces of territorial-scale architecture, yet to be unleashed. The Atlas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure, land subdivision, agricultural production, water management, storage and maintenance, human habitation, animal management, land management. Each of these systems possesses a number of organizational types, which become available through a manual of instructions for a Suprarural architectural environment. The research is based on a realisticoverriding ethics towards design that operates by abstracting and intensifying unexplored territorial phenomena. Ciro Najle is Dean at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Architecture and Urban Studies, and Design Critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Lluís Ortega is Associate Professor at IIT Architecture Chicago and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires.
This project won a Graham Foundation Grant. Ciro Najle, Lluís Ortega, (eds.) 8 x 10.45 in. / 20,3 x 10,45 cm. Soft Cover / 300 pages ISBN English 978-1-940291-54-3 (Sold Out) ISBN Spanish 978-1-940291-77-2 (Available) Available $34.95 / 30€/ £ 27 Related Titles Projective Ecologies ISBN English 978-1-940291-12-3
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