INTRODUCTION AR+D P, or Applied Research + Design Publishing, is a new editorial platform that creates a space for research-based publications within the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. Based in San Francisco, with a diverse and talented editorial board consisting of the brightest practitioners, educators, and thinkers in the world, we specifically focus on emerging dialogues between diverse modes of applied research that currently dominate a range of architectural practices, and their role in defining new modalities of spatial synthesis best afforded by design. The imprint promotes the study of emergent spatial dynamics taking place across multiple scales and geographies, in order to construct a new ground for both established and emerging voices to disseminate their ideas in physical print.
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Be Seated Laurie Olin
Be Seated Laurie Olin
On the my first trip to Europe as a young architect in 1967 I experienced an ‘ah hah’ moment visiting Paris when I encountered the public parks and their design, in particular their seating, cafes and amenities, as well as the civic infrastructure – boulevards, streets, canals, sidewalks, bridges, quais, and promenades. It had a profound effect upon me, and eventually I moved into the field of landscape architecture, leading to several years of living in Rome and southern England, including prolonged stays in Paris and London. In Be Seated Laurie Olin writes of his long interest in public seating in parks and civic spaces sharing his insights into seemingly ordinary elements of these places and actions of our individual lives and experience along with his concern for the importance and effects of public seating in the conduct and potential of our role as citizens and the establishment of place and community.
Title: Be Seated Size: 9” x 7”, portrait Pages: 200 Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-72-6 Rights World: Available Cost: $34.95
Discovering both the extraordinary in the ordinary, along with the ordinary in the extraordinary, Olin shares examples of his experience as a landscape architect, and the theory, craft, and role of seating in a number of prominent civic places, historically, and some of those his firm and others have designed. Accompanying the essays are drawings and watercolors by Olin that create a dialogue between writing and image, supplying further richness to the author’s insights and point of view as a designer. Author Landscape architect, Laurie Olin, lives in Philadelphia where he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania for forty years. His award winning designs include Bryant Park in New York, The Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
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Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University: 60 Years of Excellence Yang Rui and Zheng Xiaodi
a compilations of books, awards, published studies, and monographs. The book is a thorough reflection on the accomplishments and great work done since the establishment of the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University, and it also provides the readers with the knowledge of important environmental and architectural developments in China. Authors Yang Rui, Ph.D. is a professor, and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture at Tsinghua University. He is the director of the China National Landscape Architecture Education Supervisory Committee, deputy Secretary-General and Executive Director of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA), and Chairperson of the Theory and History Committee of CHSLA. He is also the associate editor of Chinese Landscape Architecture.
Due to the rapid growth of population within China, there is an ever-increasing need for landscape design. A new generation is attending China’s Universities, eager to improve the living environment, and Tsinghua University is pioneering the movement of landscape architecture in education. With its international starting point and broad insight into local practice, analysis of research, excellent student work, and a summary of research publication and papers, Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University: Sixty Years of Excellence provides a full and vivid picture of the landscape program at Tsinghua. The book overviews numerous aspects of the department’s achievements including: a biographical section highlighting the success of the people in the program; a description of the work done for the National Natural Science Foundation, among other places; and
Title: Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University 60 Years of Excellence Size: Size: 10” x 7.35”, portrait Pages: 352 Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-62-7 Rights World: Available Cost: $44.95
Zheng Xiaodi, Ph.D. is a professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, and assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture at Tsinghua University. She also serves as the Director of International Affairs at the Chinese Gardening and Landscaping Industry Association in China. She received her Ph.D. and B.Arch. from Tsinghua University and her MLA from the GSD, at Harvard University. Before returning to China in 2008, she worked with Laurie Olin and SWA Group in the United States, participating in award-winning projects. Her focus is on brownfield regeneration and sustainable landscape. Contributors Zhu Yufan, Wu Dongfan, Zhuang Youbo, Liu Haibo, Li Shuhua, Zhao Zhicong, Hu Jie.
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Rome
A Study in Urban Architectural Formation and Transformation Jon Michael Schwarting
In this book, formation is ideal and utopian thinking, and transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. The book examines the dialectical relationship of these in the creation of the city. The subject is a contextual theory of urban design, utilizing Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urban development of Rome, as a case study. It demonstrates the complexity of Roman urbanism and the interrelationship and role of Roman architecture to its urban context. The theory of urban ‘contextualism’ has not been adequately discussed and presented in regards to this historical city. Why it is important as a theory and as a method for designing Roman cities today? The book is an exploration and demonstration of urban analysis and visual diagramming, and an urban and architectural analysis of significant Ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque historical developments in the great city of Rome.
Title: Rome A Study in Urban Architectural Formation and Transformation Size: 11” x 11”, square Pages: 180 Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-70-2 Rights World: Available Cost: $34.95
Author Jon Michael Schwarting is an architect, urban designer, and professor. He has a B.Arch. and M.Arch in Urban Design from Cornell University and received a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. He is a Professor of Architecture and has been Director of the graduate program of Urban and Regional Design at the New York Institute of Technology. He has also taught at Columbia, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Cooper Union, Syracuse, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. He has lectured on his work and on architectural, history, theory, and issues at numerous institutions. He was an Associate at Richard Meier and Associates and has had a practice with partners since 1975. He presently works at Campani and Schwarting Architects. He has exhibited and been published widely, an has his projects have received LI AIA ARCHI awards and PA Citation. He has published articles on architecture and architectural theory in Domus, Harvard Review, VIA, Modulus, Precis and ACSA, and has received private and public grants from the Graham Foundation, NEA, NYSCA and NYS P&HP. Michael has served on the Board of the Architectural League of NYC, the Van Alan Institute, and is Trustee Emeritus of the American Academy in Rome.
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Preston Scott Cohen Taiyuan Museum of Art
Benjamin Wilke and Preston Scott Cohen
Preston Scott Cohen: Taiyuan Museum of Art is a book about how ideas come to be, evolve, are refined, changed, and are made concrete. Explored through a series of interviews, essays, and exhaustive documentation, the Taiyuan Museum of Art is intimately related to a design process and strategy that has unfolded over the course of Cohen’s career, while also indicating shifts in his interests. Critical essays and interviews map out a larger theoretical and intellectual argument for this body of work. Early projects and precedent studies are discussed, focusing on the role of different techniques of representation, development, historical evaluation, and technical execution in the development of both these earlier projects as well as the larger subject of the book. Even further, the book better describes the ideas that generated the project, as described through interviews with the graduate students of the Knowlton School of Architecture, interviews with contemporary critics, and critical commentaries by architects, designers, and colleagues of the Cohen.
Title: Preston Scott Cohen Taiyuan Museum of Art Size: 9” x 8”, portrait Pages: 168 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-58-0 Rights World: Available Cost: $29.95
The design process is described in detail through drawings, diagrams, and study models. The ambition of the Source Books series is to offer an alternative to the conventional architectural monograph by documenting the design process in depth, and by providing extensive critical commentary that allows for careful study of the project from conception through execution. Authors Benjamin Wilke is the editor of the Source Books in Architecture series and instructor at the Knowlton School of Architecture, where he teaches design studios and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate level. Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2008 to 2014. Contributors Stan Allen, Kristy Balliet, Douglas Graf, Jeffrey Kipnis, and Robert Livesey.
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Shanghai Regeneration Five Paradigms
Xiangning Li, Dingliang Yang, Xiangming Huang and has published widely on contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism in international architectural magazines including the Architectural Review, A+U, Architectural Record, Domus, and more. His recent books include The Real and the Imagined, Updating China, Made in Shanghai, and Total China. He was the co-curator of the 2011 Chendu Biennale, 2011 Shenzhen Biennale, and academic director and curator of the 2013 Shenzhen/Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale and West Bund 2013 Biennale.
Shanghai Regeneration: Five Paradigms, emphasizes the value of design in the urban regeneration of Shanghai, with the unique capacity to lead urban transformation flexibly, and productively, specifically through the representative case studies in five different synthesized paradigms. The book initially addresses the issue of the urban restoration of Shanghai in the past ten years, not only through systematic analysis, but also by means of specific cases. This book will be enlightening and useful for the professionals, academics, and researchers in the field of urbanism and architectural design related with China. Authors Xiangning Li is currently deputy dean and professor of history, theory, and criticism at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as a visiting professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is a member of CICA (Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture),
Title: Shanghai Regeneration Five Paradigms Size: 11” x 8.5”, portrait Pages: 220 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN:978-1-939621-61-0 Rights World: Available Cost: $ 24.95
Dingliang Yang is currently a teaching fellow and research associate, as well as a Doctor of Design Candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize and Paul M. Heffernan Fellowship. His most recent publications include Hangzhou: From Canal Grid to Maxi-block and Townization: In Search of New Paradigm of Urbanization in China. He also has contributed to the publications, Common Frameworks Rethinking the Developmental City in China: Xiamen the Megaplot, The Countryside as a City, The Urbanistic Plan in 21st Century, and EL Croquis. Yang is a founding partner of Preliminary Research Office (PRO), a Los Angeles based emergent interdisciplinary design office, with a focus on work in China and the US. Xiangming Huang is the board member and chief architect of Tianhua Group. Since co-founding Tianhua, he has led its design practice with a thoughtful and critical perspective. Under his excellent leadership, Tianhua Group has grown to a 2,500-employee design-construction integrated service corporation with international contracting qualification and contains many wholly owned subsidiaries national wide. His major works include Biyun Community, Biyun Garden, Huilong New City, Oak Bay, Pujiang New Town, Vanke Wonderland, Rainbow City, and Cultural and Sports Center of Suzhou New District. Book designed by Ruoyun Xu
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Redesigning Gridded Cities Chicago
Joan Busquet
These books focus with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou. By analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways, they emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly, and productively. Both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. Author Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Title: Redesigning Gridded Cities Chicago Size: 11” x 11”, square Pages: 138 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-52-8 Rights World: Available Cost: $25.00
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Redesigning Gridded Cities Manhattan Joan Busquet
These books focus with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou. By analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways, they emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly, and productively. Both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. Author Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Title: Redesigning Gridded Cities Manhattan Size: 11” x 11”, square Pages: 122 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-51-1 Rights World: Available Cost: $25.00
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Redesigning Gridded Cities Hangzhou
Joan Busquet
These books focus with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou. By analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways, they emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly, and productively. Both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. Author Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Title: Redesigning Gridded Cities Hangzhou Size: 11” x 11”, square Pages: 148 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-54-2 Rights World: Available Cost: $25.00
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Redesigning Gridded Cities Barcelona Joan Busquet
These books focus with extreme detail on four paradigmatic gridded cities, Manhattan, Chicago, Barcelona, and Hangzhou. By analyzing these cities and proposing their own interventions that implicate the grid in productive ways, they emphasize the value of open forms for city design, and specifically insist that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly, and productively. Both historical and projective, this series of books explore the potential of the grid as a design tool to produce a multitude of urban processes and forms. Author Joan Busquets, a world-renowned urban planner and architect, is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Title: Redesigning Gridded Cities Barcelona Size: 11” x 11”, square Pages: 136 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-53-5 Rights World: Available Cost: $25.00
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Urbanlab Bowling Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen
Authors Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen are co-founders of UrbanLab, a collaborative office practicing architecture and urban design. UrbanLab’s primary interest is in forward-looking projects that speculate on a more resilient and resourceful tomorrow. Projects span from large urban proposals to small residential projects. Martin Felsen, AIA, is a registered architect in Illinois and New York. He was educated at Virginia Tech (B.Arch, 1991), and Columbia University (MS-AAD, 1994). Felsen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture in the Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture. Sarah Dunn was educated at Columbia University (M.Arch, 1994). Dunn is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
As populations steadily increase in cities, the world’s natural resources are consumed at ever-faster rates. The majority of the world’s populations live in countries where clean water supplies are dwindling, and these water shortages are also quickly translating into food shortages. What can designers do to avert looming water-related realities? UrbanLab: Bowling views potential water crises as opportunities to speculate on future urban design possibilities, especially in cities. Several projects are presented that take an ecological approach to re-thinking received urban design methodologies of addressing the design of water-related infrastructures in existing and new cities.
Title: Urbanlab Bowling Size: 6.9" x 8.3", portrait Pages: 240 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-940743-13-4 Rights World: Available Cost: $29.95
Stan Allen, an internationally renowned architect and theorist. Allen is the George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. In 2011 he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and in 2012, elected to the National Academy of Design. He leads SAA/Stan Allen Architect. John McMorrough, a nationally renowned architect and theorist. McMorrough is an associate professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and a principal architect in studioAPT (Architecture Project Theory). Rick Valicenti Valicenti (Designer) is the founder and design director of Thirst/3st, a communication design practice providing design and immersive environments. In 2011 Valicenti was awarded the Smithsonian CooperHewitt, National Design Award for Communication Design. In 2006, he received the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medal, the highest honor of the graphic design profession. In 2004, he was recognized as a Fellow of the AIGA Chicago.
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Stan Allen Four Projects
Benjamin Wilke and Stan Allen Michael Cadwell is Walter H. Kidd Professor and Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture. He is a founding principal of Cadwell and Murphy Architects in Columbus, Ohio and is the author of Strange Details (2007) and Small Buildings (1996). Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2008 — 2014. Douglas Graff is an architect and urban planner based in Columbus, Ohio. He is professor of Architecture at The Knowlton School of Architecture and a frequent visiting critic at institutions worldwide. Jeffrey Kipnis is Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture. He is widely known for his writing, teaching, and curatorial activities, which include the exhibitions, Mood River and Perfect Acts of Architecture, and the documentary film, A Constructive Madness. The book documents two realized buildings and two competition projects for contemporary art museums. All four projects continue a line of design research first proposed in the 2010 competition entry for the New Maribor Art Gallery (Maribor, Slovenia). All of the projects published here work with strategies of serial aggregation, part‐to‐whole relationships, and a geometric language that recalls crystalline geological form. The design process is described in detail through drawings, diagrams, and study models. Authors Stan Allen is an architect working in New York and George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. From 2002 to 2012 he was Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton.
Title: Stan Allen: Four Projects Size: 8" x 9", portrait Pages: 168 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2017 ISBN: 978-1-939621-33-7 Rights World: Available Cost: $29.95
William O'Brien Jr. principal of WOJR, is an Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture and one of the founding members of Collective–LOK. He is the recipient of the 2012 — 2013 Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome, and he was awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers. Enrique Walker is an architect and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, where he also directs the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design. Benjamin Wilke is the editor of the Source Books in Architecture series and instructor at the Knowlton School of Architecture, where he teaches design studios and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate level.
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Working in Mumbai Rahul Mehrotra
RMA’s approach to working in Mumbai has been to use the city and region of their operation as a generator of practice. It’s a way for them to evolve an approach, and architectural vocabulary, that draws from a more elastic definition of the profession – one that sees multiple disciplines as being simultaneously valid in engaging with the kinetic landscape of India. Working in Mumbai is not monographic in its format or disposition. Rather, it weaves a series of rich narratives around the gamut of issues and questions that intersect at many moments as these different narratives unfold. Architecture, emergent urbanism, critical conservation, research and writing, reuse of urban spaces, and social engagement are some of the issues that become the focus of these narratives. The narratives are richly represented with illustrations from their practice and collaborations, as well as other relevant images from across India.
Title: Working in Mumbai Size: 11.375" x 9.625", portrait Pages: 280 Binding: Trade Cloth Publication Date: Fall 2017 ISBN: 978-1-940743-03-5 Rights: Available Cost: $60.00
Author Rahul Mehrotra is the principal of architecture firm RMA Architects (founded in 1990 as Rahul Mehrotra Associates) of Mumbai, India, and is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Mass., USA. He has been one of the activists behind the declaration of urban precincts as conservation areas in Mumbai and one of the founding members of the Kala Ghoda area rejuvenation movement, the restoration of the Oval Maidan, and the formulation of several citizens’ associations in the historic Fort District in Mumbai. He was also executive director of the Urban Design Research Institute (1994—2004), where he is now a trustee. The UDRI is also actively involved in researching and influencing policy for the historic district, and the city more generally.
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Kinetic City
Emergent Urbanism in India Rahul Mehrotra
The increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social classes. In such a context, an architecture or urbanism of equality in an increasingly inequitable economic condition requires a deeper exploration – to find a wide range of places to mark and commemorate the cultures of those excluded from the spaces of global flows. These do not necessarily lie in the formal production of architecture; rather, they often challenge it. Here the idea of a city is an elastic urban condition – not a grand vision, but a “grand adjustment.” The Kinetic City presents a lens that enables us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society.
Title: Kinetic City Emergent Urbanism in India Size: 6.69" x 9.05”, portrait Pages: 176 Binding: Trade Cloth Publication Date: Spring 2018 ISBN: 978-1-940743-04-2 Weight: 1.95kg/4.3lb Price: $29.95 Rights: Available
Author Rahul Mehrotra is the principal of architecture firm RMA Architects (founded in 1990 as Rahul Mehrotra Associates) of Mumbai, India and Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Mass., USA. He has been one of the activists behind the declaration of urban precincts as conservation areas in Mumbai and one of the founding members of the Kala Ghoda area rejuvenation movement, the restoration of the Oval Maidan, and the formulation of several citizens’ associations in the historic Fort District in Mumbai. He was also executive director of the Urban Design Research Institute (1994-2004), where he is now a trustee. The UDRI is also actively involved in researching and influencing policy for the historic district, and the city more generally.
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Eric Owen Moss Architects / 3585 Todd Gannon and Eric Owen Moss
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ERIC OWEN MOSS ARCHITECTS/3585 SOURCE BOOKS IN ARCHITECTURE
TODD GANNON, SERIES EDITOR
For nearly three decades, Eric Owen Moss Architects has been at work transforming the former industrial area of the Hayden Tract in Culver City, California into one of the most highly concentrated centers of architectural experimentation in the world. Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585, the ninth volume in the Source Books in Architecture series produced by the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University, offers a unique look into the mind and method of one of the most important architects working today through comprehensive presentation of three schemes his office designed for a single site in the Hayden Tract since 1991. Beginning with an illuminating discussion of his development as an architect from his student days at the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Moss recounts the intellectual odyssey of his forty-year career, outlining his unique stance with respect to the theoretical complexities of literature, philosophy, and cultural sources, and the tangible complexities of bureaucratic and fiscal constraints of local and intranational politics, real estate development, and the gritty nature of the Title: Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585 Size: 8" x 9", portrait Pages: 168 Binding: Softbound Publication Date: Spring 2016 ISBN: 978-1-940743-16-5 Rights World: Available Cost: $29.95
construction industry. His specific engagement of these diverse issues is revealed in a comprehensive presentation of Moss’s designs for 3585 Hayden Avenue over a twenty-five year period—the Hayden Tower of 1991, the Ten Towers proposal of 1999, and the recently completed Cactus Tower and Waffle, completed in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Each of these projects is presented with a wealth of sketches, drawings, models, renderings, and working drawings from the EOMA archive, as well as extensive photographic documentation of the construction process and completed buildings, providing valuable insight into the cultural and technical complexities at the heart of Moss’s provocative architecture. Authors Todd Gannon is an architect, writer, and curator based in Los Angeles. A graduate of The Ohio State University (BS Arch, M. Arch) and UCLA (Ph.D.), he taught at Ohio State, Otis College of Art and Design, and UCLA before joining the faculty at SCI-Arc in 2008, where he teaches history, theory, and design studio, coordinates the Cultural Studies curriculum, and serves as editor of academic publications. Eric Owen Moss, FAIA, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles. He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture from both the University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He has held teaching positions at major universities around the world including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Moss has been a longtime professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and served as its director from 2002-2015.
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Ganges Water Machine:
Designing New India’s Ancient River Anthony Acciavatti
If you look at the totality of the initiatives taken by our Government to increase investment in rural infrastructure, rural education, rural health care, rural housing, rural telecommunication, rural electrification, rural roads and, above all, in agriculture, irrigation and horticulture under the guidance of Shri Sharad Pawar [Minister of Agriculture], we have given rural India a new deal. I am confident that in years to come these developments will transform the life of our people. prime minister manmohan singh, August 7, 2008
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GANGES WATER MACHINE: DESIGNING NEW INDIA’S ANCIENT RIVER
Where a desert may preserve a city or monument for thousands of years, a volatile alluvial corridor such as the Ganges River threatens to wash away entire cities and villages in a matter of days. The compelling need to adapt to the drastic changes of the Gangetic Plains or disintegrate historically made climatic responsiveness the commanding theme of human settlement along this dynamic waterway. With a considerable amount of India’s agricultural production taking place in U.P., irrigation and agricultural production order not only the countryside but also many of the regional urban centers like Allahabad, Mirzapur, and Benares (Varanasi). Further compounding this agrarian space is a unique urban circumstance as nearly one-sixth of India’s one-billion-plus population resides in the state of U.P. These dynamic circumstances not only motivate spatial and morphological growth patterns, but also necessitate a unique set of socio-cultural and economic practices that is exemplified by the diffuse forms of urbanization along expansive tracts of transportation and hydrological infrastructures crisscrossing and running parallel to the Ganges River. While the image of India and the Ganges River are inseprable amongst Indians and foreigners alike, there is surprisingly a dearth of scholarship on architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure along the Ganges River Corridor. How did this situation, which is relatively unique to India at this scale, emerge? This publication asserts another understanding of the hinterland of northern India as sharing the same level of infrastructural excess and detail as that of the traditional compact city—and equally worthy of design attention and expertise. The study of territories and regions at different scales avow designers and scholars alike to examine climate, geography, natural resources, technology, social organization, etc. as part of a greater variety of tools for design. I will contend that the rationale behind why design is not involved is for two fundamental reasons, namely that representations of this territory fail to capture the unique social and environmental dynamics driving space making practices and that infrastructure, not architecture, in this context, is the primary formgiving enterprise. Expansive tracts of infrastructures like highways, rail lines, and canals present a compelling array of new geometries for designers who are interested in engaging architecture beyond the conventions of the boutique infill, the isolated building, or ossified urban forms.
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Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) and the technology centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the basin: a fertile alluvial plain of 1.1 million square kilometers in area, which is today home to over onequarter of India’s billion-plus population. While most of the basin sits within India, it extends into present day Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet. Not only is the area one of the most densely populated river basins in the world, but every year it also undergoes radical physical changes. With the arrival of the southwest monsoon between lateJune and late-August, over one meter of rainfall drenches northern India. And, what is more, despite these drastic seasonal changes and population density, the basin remains agriculturally productive. This book focuses on the overlaps and juxtapositions of these three conditions: Population Density—Monsoon— Agriculture. It is an atlas of built and unbuilt projects designed to transform the Ganges River basin.
Title: Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River Size: 9” x 11.75” Portrait Pages: 260 Binding: Trade Paper Publication Date: Fall 2015 ISBN: 978-0-982-6226-1-2 Rights: Available Price: $45.00
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Beyond the dense urbanism of a city like Mumbai or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad, all of which present a global face of modern India, there has come into being a territory of immense design potential with very little speculation by designers. The Ganges River Corridor in the state of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), appears outside the image of modern metropolitan living within India; however, upon closer observation, this “Cow Belt”1 of India is situated in the very center of a struggle to establish, for the past 150 years, a productive countryside with its affiliated infrastructures. The seat of former empires, principalities, and satrapies, the Ganges River Corridor presents a fertile meeting of religious and cultural heritage, agricultural cultivation, and diffuse forms of urbanization, supported by an elaborate network of hydrological and transportation infrastructures. The extreme changes in weather and climate caused by the onslaught of the wet monsoon (late-June through late-August) where the region transforms from an arid and parched condition to a wet and gelatinous one, necessitates a careful and thoughtful application of design at the scales of architecture and urbanism, especially as the seasonal and mechanical distribution of water are so intertwined with maintaining life and staving off famine and civil unrest. For this reason, it is a territory whose urbanization was culturally and historically bound by the seasonal rains of the wet monsoon, yet today expanded by modern forms of mechanical irrigation like canals, tubewells, and miniature hand-held pumping mechanisms.
Reaching through the very heart of some of India's most densely populated cities, small towns, industrial zones, sacred sites, and mountainous forests, Ganges Water Machine by, composed of eight years of field and archival research, explores and theorizes the people and infrastructures that shaped this territory. left bAnK of gAnges cAnAl At RooRKee, uttARAKhAnD
Ganges Water Machine is an atlas of the enterprise to make the Ganges River basin into a highly engineered landscape: it reveals the narratives and explanations that allowed engineers and planners to realize fantasies previously only imaginable on paper or in myth. Author Anthony Acciavatti, the principal investigator and author, is a graduate of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a principal of Somatic Collaborative, an award-winning architecture and urban design practice in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Northeastern University. For almost a decade, Acciavatti has traveled by foot, boat, and car documenting the expanse of the river Ganges, from its source in the Himalayas to the historic city of Patna nearly 1,000km downstream. A J. William Fulbright Fellowship as well as grants from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University, amongst others, have supported his work on the Ganges.
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Expanded Field
Architectural Installation Beyond Art Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham
Architecture, Interiors, Sculpture, and Landscape. These four terms are the initial reference points used to elaborate a more extensive taxonomical framework defining twelve distinct territories where the analytical drawings and photographic indexes of seventy-five installation projects are situated. Expanded Field: Architectural Installation Beyond Art explores the realm of art and architecture across a broad terrain of installation practices. Installations have not only contributed to the advancement of architectural research but have also enabled the redefinition and progressive development of architecture’s disciplinary territory, allowing architects to explore spatial and tectonic ideas, experiment with emerging technological strategies, and distill perceptual and experiential conditions without the limitations traditionally imposed by the permanence and utility of building. Within this book, a wide range of art and architectural works are positioned and mapped as constellations within a newly expanded field suspended between
Title: Expanded Field Architectural Installation Beyond Art Size: 9" x 11.5", portrait Pages: 384 Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Spring 2016 ISBN: 978-1-940743-02-8 Rights World: Available Cost: $50.00
About the Authors: Ila Berman, principal of Scaleshift design and the O’Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, is an architect, theorist, and curator of architecture and urbanism whose research investigates the relationship between culture and the evolution of contemporary material and spatial practices. Douglas Burnham is principal and founder of envelope a+d, an award-winning architecture and design firm whose work reconceptualizes modes of living and building to advance compelling visions of the emerging urban condition.
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Back in India, my father keeps a display of collectibles under the glass table-top in his office. One of them is a beautiful postcard of the colossal bronze Buddha in the Todaiji temple in Nara. I have admired it since I was barely three feet tall. Years later, I remembered that postcard, when I stood in front of the fifty-foot, five-hundred-ton gentle giant.
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