Title & Author:

Critical care : architecture and urbanism for a broken planet / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, editors.

Publication:

Vienna [Austria] : Architekturzentrum Wien ; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2019]

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (April 24, 2019-Sept. 9, 2019), Architekturzentrum Wien."--Page 4.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
Critical care. Architecture and urbanism for a broken planet / Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny -- Caring architecture / Joan C. Tronto -- Architecture and care / Elke Krasny -- Seychelles Islands idyll and the planning of Eden: speculating on creative ecologies / Hélène Frichot -- Practicing civic ecology : Venice and the Lagoon / Jane Da Mosto -- Seeing and acting / Mauro Baracco, Louise Wright and Linda Tegg -- Counter-conducts: politics of architecture and labor in Brazil / Ana Carolina Tonetti and Ligia V. Nobre -- Affective economy. Transitions to an ecological citizenship / Mauro Gil-Fournier -- Handling replacement: tending to a local library and repair center / Valeria Graziano and Kim Trogal -- Speculations on architecting care beyond the anthropocene / Katherine Gibson -- The Favela Community Land Trust: a sustainable housing model for the global South / Theresa Williamson -- Towards a radical democratic politics of urban land: the case of (Red) Vienna / Gabu Heindl -- The changing ways of being in common: from collective to common spaces in welfare housing / Meike Schalk, Sara Brolund de Carvalho and Helena Mattsson -- Jintai Village reconstruction 2017 Sichuan Province, China / Rural Urban Framework (RUF) -- Recovery of the irrigation system at the Thermal Orchards 2015 Caldes Montbui, Spain / CÍCLICA [space-community-ecology] sccl, and CAVAA -- Caño Martín Peña Community Land Trust 2014 San Juan, Puerto Rico / Corporación del Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña and G-8 Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades Aledañas al Caño Martín Peña, Inc. -- Friendship Centre 2012 Gaibandha, Bangladesh / Kashef Mahboob Chowhury/URBANA -- Unidad de Vida Articulada Orfelinato, Uva de La Imaginacaíon 2015 Medellín, Colombia / Colectivo 720 -- Ruskin Square since 2010 Croydon, England / muf architecture/art -- Superblock model since 2016 Barcelona, Spain / Ajuntament de Barcelona -- Freie Mitte Nordbahnhof since 2012/2017 Vienna, Austria / StudioVlayStreeruwiz Mischung: Nordbahnhof -- Care + Repair 2017 Vienna, Austria / Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien -- MEXUS 2018 US-Mexico Border / Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman -- Sindh flood rehabilitation since 2010 Sindh Region, Pakistan / Yasmeen Lari/Heritage Foundation of Pakistan -- 100 classrooms for refugee children 2017 Za'atari Village, Jordan / Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR) -- Volontariat Home for Homeless Children 2010 Pondicherry, India / Anupama Kundoo -- PC Caritas 2016 Melle, Belgium / architecten de vylder vinck taillieu -- SESC 24 de Maio 2017 Sãn Paulo, Brazil / Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB Architects -- Transformation of 530 dwellings, Cité du Grand Parc 2016 Bordeaux, France / Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin -- Haus der Statistik since 2015 Berlin, Germany / ZUsammenKUNDFT -- R-Urban since 2011 Colombes, Bagneux, Gennevilliers, France / atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa) -- Kibera Public Space Project since 2006 Nairobi, Kenya / Kounkuey Design Initiative -- Didi Textiles since 2012 Rudrapur, Bangladesh / Anna Heringer -- Tofu Factory 2018 Caizhai Village, China / Xu Tiantian/DnA Design and Architecture.

Summary:

How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from an extraordinarily diverse group of contributors. Focusing on the three crisis areas of economy, ecology, and labor, the book describes projects including village reconstruction in China; irrigation in Spain; community land trust in Puerto Rico; revitalization of modernist public housing in France; new alliances in informal settlements in Nairobi; and the redevelopment of traditional building methods in flood areas in Pakistan. Essays consider such topics as ethical architecture, land policy, creative ecologies, diverse economies, caring communities, and the exploitation of labor. Taken together, these case studies and essays provide evidence that architecture and urbanism have the capacity to make the planet livable, again.

ISBN:

9780262536837 (paperback)
0262536838 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture Economic aspects.
City planning Economic aspects.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Fitz, Angelika, editor.
Krasny, Elke, 1965- editor.
Fitz, Angelika editor.
Dorsey, Brian translator.
Savage, Timothy (Translator) translator.
Architektur Zentrum Wien.
Architektur Zentrum Wien issuing body, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304795
Call No.: BIB 250511
Status: External loan