MutationsACTAR, 2000 - 720 pages The continuously accelerating phenomenon of urbanization continues to be one of the great challenges of our time, surfacing repeatedly as an issue in different areas of the world for two hundred years. In a world that has been redefined by a proliferation of communication networks and by a progressive erasure of borders, Mutations reflects on the transformations that these accelerating processes inflict on our environment, and on the spaces in which architecture can still operate. Organized as a heavily illustrated atlas/survey of contemporary urban landscapes, the first section of this exhaustive and essential book begins with revealing data on global urbanization, juxtaposed with a series of essays on the changing environment and economy of today's metropolis. The rest of the book is devoted to a selection of groundbreaking studies by some of the central figures in contemporary architectural urbanism, including the Pearl River Delta in Southeast Asia, a project of the Harvard Project on the City, directed by Rem Koolhaas; ''Uncertain States of Europe, '' a project by Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity; a survey of American cities by Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius; and a study of Lagos, Nigeria--one of Africa's largest cities--by the Harvard Project. |
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... construction of the Guangzhou ESW Ring Road has been interrupted by a 66 % increase in construction costs . There are currently 3 highway connections between Shenzhen and Hong Kong ; 3 more will be added in the near future . Hong Kong's ...
... construction of the Guangzhou ESW Ring Road has been interrupted by a 66 % increase in construction costs . There are currently 3 highway connections between Shenzhen and Hong Kong ; 3 more will be added in the near future . Hong Kong's ...
Page 318
... construction , but almost every building will change its program before construction is finished . Architects recycle projects . A twenty - two story tower can be cut off without any modification of the original design . Financial ...
... construction , but almost every building will change its program before construction is finished . Architects recycle projects . A twenty - two story tower can be cut off without any modification of the original design . Financial ...
Page 662
... construction of new rooms , and 2 ) the making of new surfaces , vertical or horizontal planes , gratings , fences , and metal sheets in ever more incremental layers . Compounding thus increases the amount of building program , as new ...
... construction of new rooms , and 2 ) the making of new surfaces , vertical or horizontal planes , gratings , fences , and metal sheets in ever more incremental layers . Compounding thus increases the amount of building program , as new ...
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Statistics Céline Rozenblat | 10 |
Shopping Harvard Project on the City | 124 |
Photographic dossier | 196 |
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