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The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical "forA on the urban" explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities of fraught spaces – urban frictions – in(...)
Urban Theory
March 2024
ForA on the urban, Issue #1: Eleven frictions from an urbanized world
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The first issue of the interdisciplinary periodical "forA on the urban" explores the open, multilayered, interconnected, complex, and unbridled nature of urban design. Through eleven contributions from eighteen international experts on architecture, art, social criticism, and activism, this issue illuminates specific realities of fraught spaces – urban frictions – in different parts of the world. Everyday frustrations, manifest inequalities, and social and political conflicts are examined throughout this issue in a process of description, discussion, and designation. The relationships between urban objects reflect the emergence of plurality and coexistence within and beyond what can be seen and understood as urban within an expanded concept of architecture.
Urban Theory
Breathable
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public(...)
Breathable
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An eye-opening and refreshing collection of practices, works, projects and essays are compiled in this catalogue which together explore the theme of how air, the atmosphere and our physical surrounds, work and reflect on the individual and society. Simplicity, luminosity, economy of means, the integration of non-human actors, the construction of new types of public spaces, the recovery of space as a material, and the application of technology in a natural way, are all themes central to this publication. A seminal collection of practitioners are featured here with works and writings from such names as: Mark Wigley, Olafur Eliasson, Diller & Scofidio, R, Brian Eno, Carsten Nicolai, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Decosterd & Rahm and SANAA.
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