Verb crisis / [edited by Mario Ballesteros and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballesteros, Mario.

ProQuest ebook central.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Verb (Barcelona, Spain) ; 6.

Verb ; v. 6

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban renewal.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans.

Other Title:

Crisis

Place of Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Current architectural intervention has demonstrated a tendency towards the production of the superficial: Effects, ornamentation, and embellishments are applied to programs defined by social, economic, and technical conditions that fall outside of the profession. Verb Crisis tackles the conflict that marks the collision between the physical nature of the architectural commission and the demands of a world that is increasingly dense and interdependent, a world marked by undeniable environmental problems and economic inequalities. Given the shortfalls of standard professional attitudes, Verb Crisis presents projects and investigations that grant the practice of architecture an updated optimism and social relevance.

Contents:

[I] Places : Dubai : Global city guaranteed? / Ramon Prat

Case study Dubai: learning from Junk Space Deluxe / Boris Broman Jensen

Madrid : The rise of the residential periphery / Ramon Prat

Tijuana/San Diego : Border neighborhoods / Teddy Cruz

Iquique, Chile : Building on the Chilean slum / Elemental

Detroit : Defunct city? / Jordi Bernadó, Interboro

BioMed City / Hilary Sample

Fresh Kills, New York : Brining back a Fresh Kill / John May, Jessika Creedon

[II] Positions : On technology, ecology, and urbanism : interview / John May

Twelve years of emergency architecture : interview / Shigeru Ban

Residential periphery. Essays / Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jacob van Rijs, Jacobo García-Germán

Architecture : participation, process, and negotiation : interview / Teddy Cruz

The city as a source of equity : interview / Alejandro Aravena

Violating consensus : interview / Markus Miessen, Chantal Mouffe

[III] Projects : Substitune® / Markus Miessen

Experimental emergency architecture / Takuya Onishi, Launchpad05

Building the periphery / Foreign Office Architects, MVRDV, Jacobo García-Germán, Ecosistema urbano

Improve your lot! / Interboro Partners

Manufactured sites / Estudio Teddy Cruz

Quinta Monroy, Iquique : Elemental / Alejandro Aravena.

Notes:

Title from colophon.

"Verb Crisis is the sixth volume of Actar's architecture boogazine"--Colophon.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781945150562

1945150564

Publisher Number:

99990270251

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.