Title & Author:

Everlasting plastics / edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Joanna Joseph, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, and Lauren Leving.

Publication:

New York : Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 2024.
New York : Columbia University Press.
©2024

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
"With artwork by Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager; essays from madison moore, Laura Raicovich, Shannon Rae Stratton, Marisa Solomon, Jessica Varner, and Michele Washington; sketches by Kristen Bos, K. Jake Chakasim, Sky Cubacub, Heather Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Rania Ghosn, Stephanie Ginese, Aurelia Guo, Adam Hanieh, Ilana Harris-Babou, Theodossis Issaias, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Carolyn L. Kane, Laleh Khalili, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Esther Leslie, Ani Liu, Adie Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Gabrielle Printz, Kyla Schuller, Terry Schwarz, Pallavi Sen, Ayesha A. Siddiqi, Ala Tannir, and RA Washington"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

How can we live without plastics? But, also, how "can" we live without plastics? Exploring the ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, this book offers accounts of our fraught yet enmeshed kinship with these materials. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the writings and artworks collected in this volume attempt to register our ongoing toxic dependencies on plastic, its impact on other material cultures and behaviors, and the harm and possibilities it entangles for our collective futures. 'Everlasting Plastics' records and expands upon the exhibition of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which excavated the ways synthetics both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment. Refusing to see the exhibition as a static event and instead imagining it as an invitation to evolve the stakes of a shared conversation, the book gathers the work of the exhibition alongside research, reflections, sketches, and newly commissioned critical essays. More than a catalog, 'Everlasting Plastics' is itself an exercise in plasticity - staging interactions between institutions and disciplines, between editorial and curatorial practice, between book and exhibition. Exhibition: US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy (20.5-26.11.2023).

ISBN:

9781941332818 paperback
1941332811 paperback

Subject:

International Architectural Exhibition (18th : 2023 : Venice, Italy)
Plastics Environmental aspects.
Plastics Biodegradation.
Plastics in building.
Plastics as art material.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Matières plastiques Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques Biodégradation.
Matières plastiques dans la construction.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques (Matériau d'artistes)

Added entries:

Baldenebro, Tizziana, editor.
Joseph, Joanna (Editor), editor.
Kirkham-Lewitt, Isabelle, editor
Leving, Lauren, editor.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321518
Call No.: 321518
Copy: 1
Status: Available