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Berlin architecture firm Bplus.xyz's political campaign to enshrine adaptive re-use across Europe, Toronto’s experiment in pairing affordable housing and social medicine, Urbz Mumbai’s mission to improve and empower India’s largest slum – all are brilliant examples of design and policy coming together to effect positive change for communities. We feature these incredible(...)
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Berlin architecture firm Bplus.xyz's political campaign to enshrine adaptive re-use across Europe, Toronto’s experiment in pairing affordable housing and social medicine, Urbz Mumbai’s mission to improve and empower India’s largest slum – all are brilliant examples of design and policy coming together to effect positive change for communities. We feature these incredible pursuits and more in our Mar/Apr 2025 issue. Plus, we report from Iqaluit, where a growing number of Canadian architects are contributing to the architectural infrastructure.
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A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Foran examines the(...)
Expansive discourses: urban sprawl in Calgary 1945-1978
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A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Foran examines the complexity of their interactions from a historical perspective, why each party acted as it did, and where each can be criticized.
Architecture in Canada
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''In Not a Monument: Lauren Bon and the Aesthetics of Regeneration'', critic Alex Ardyce Jones proposes new critical terms for ecological art through sustained engagement with Bon's ''Bending the River'', a twenty-year intervention in the infrastructure of the Los Angeles River. Working against the monumental tradition of American Land Art, the essay develops three(...)
Not a Monument: Lauren Bon and the aesthetics of regeneration
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''In Not a Monument: Lauren Bon and the Aesthetics of Regeneration'', critic Alex Ardyce Jones proposes new critical terms for ecological art through sustained engagement with Bon's ''Bending the River'', a twenty-year intervention in the infrastructure of the Los Angeles River. Working against the monumental tradition of American Land Art, the essay develops three criteria—Embedded, Relational, and Successive—for understanding artworks whose form is constituted through ongoing exchanges with living systems rather than imposed upon them.
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Celebrated as the world’s most innovative city in 2013, Medellín is the quintessential symbol for urban metamorphosis. What makes it a reference model lies as much in its exceptional public facilities and infrastructure as it does in the socially driven, progressive urban policies and bold formats for cooperation. Medellín: Topography of Knowledg is an exhibition and(...)
Medellin: topography of knowledge
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Celebrated as the world’s most innovative city in 2013, Medellín is the quintessential symbol for urban metamorphosis. What makes it a reference model lies as much in its exceptional public facilities and infrastructure as it does in the socially driven, progressive urban policies and bold formats for cooperation. Medellín: Topography of Knowledg is an exhibition and programme that will investigate and disseminate lessons from the Medellín Model, bringing together the diverse range of actors behind it.
Architecture since 1900, Americas
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This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creative projects explore the interaction between architectural spaces and infrastructural systems with the aim of responding to contemporary environmental, social, and political crises. In addition, the book presents a selection of(...)
Engineering Structures
August 2022
Infrastructural love: Caring for our architectural support systems
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This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creative projects explore the interaction between architectural spaces and infrastructural systems with the aim of responding to contemporary environmental, social, and political crises. In addition, the book presents a selection of 10 speculative design experiments undertaken in Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH Stockholm and within Design, Philosophy and Architecture at the University of Melbourne.
Engineering Structures
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After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Steven Holl had the idea of devoting the next Pamphlet Architecture book to solutions for rebuilding the architecture and infrastructure of the country. Going back to the origins of the series, which was founded by Holl in 1977, Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haiti Villages presents Steven Holl Architects' vision for a new way of(...)
Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haiti villages
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After the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Steven Holl had the idea of devoting the next Pamphlet Architecture book to solutions for rebuilding the architecture and infrastructure of the country. Going back to the origins of the series, which was founded by Holl in 1977, Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haiti Villages presents Steven Holl Architects' vision for a new way of building in Haiti, with contributions from leading structural engineer Guy Nordenson and Matthias Schuler of climate engineering firm Transsolar.
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Rural Urban Framework is a work group at the University of Hong Kong that not only researches the far-reaching changes of the last thirty years in China's rural areas, but has also realized concrete projects aimed at improving supply and infrastructure on site. In this publication, the authors present for the first time the results of their research as well as their built(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
November 2013
Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese countryside
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Rural Urban Framework is a work group at the University of Hong Kong that not only researches the far-reaching changes of the last thirty years in China's rural areas, but has also realized concrete projects aimed at improving supply and infrastructure on site. In this publication, the authors present for the first time the results of their research as well as their built projects in the Chinese backlands, and question whether China's only future model lies in cities.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse(...)
Dirt: new geographies of cleanliness and contamination
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This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.
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June 2013
Urban Theory
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As the nation's educational infrastructure both ages and expands, schools have become sites of critical concern and opportunities for community development. An outgrowth of a special session of NEA's Mayor Institute on City Design hosted by UIC, this publication contains essays and current projects by architects Sheila Kennedy, Julie Eizenberg, Roy Strickland, Sharon(...)
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September 2002, Washington, D.C.
Schools for cities : urban strategies
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As the nation's educational infrastructure both ages and expands, schools have become sites of critical concern and opportunities for community development. An outgrowth of a special session of NEA's Mayor Institute on City Design hosted by UIC, this publication contains essays and current projects by architects Sheila Kennedy, Julie Eizenberg, Roy Strickland, Sharon Haar; preservationist Constance Beaumont and landscape architect Peter Schaudt; and others, demonstrating the ways in which schools can serve as institutions that contribute to a vital civic life.
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It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another—or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects(...)
Landscape as urbanism: A general theory
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It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another—or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In this volume, one of the field’s pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.
Urban Landscapes