The World as an Architectural Project
$84.05
- Hardcover
576 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2020
Summary
Architects imagine the planet- fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others.The world’s growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale.The World as an Architectural Projectshows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithso…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043960 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262043963 |
| Author: | Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Gabriel Kozlowski |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.42kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 165mm x 44mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
About The Author
Hashim Sarkis
Hashim Sarkis is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and principal architect in HashimSarkis Studios, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Beirut. He is Curator of the 2020 Venice Architectural Biennale. His work was shown in the United States Pavilion at the 2014 edition of the Biennale and he served on the Biennale’s international jury in 2016.Roi Salgueiro Barrio, an architect and urbanist, is an instructor at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.Gabriel Kozlowski, an architect and curator, is a Research Associate at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
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