Main entry:

Bruun, Maria, author.

Title & Author:

Soil lab : a built experiment / edited by Eleanor Beaumont, Maria Bruun, James Albert Martin, Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, Anne Dorthe Vester.

Publication:

New York : ACTAR, 2023
©2023

Description:

165 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-163) and index.
Introduction / Soil Lab -- Beneath the pavement / Catherine Fennell -- After the event / Emmett Scanlon -- Expanding ground / Soil Lab -- Architecture for the more / Sami Akkach -- Stirred not tumbled: a recipe for rammed earth / Sami Akkach -- Participant interviews / Traci Wile and Craig Stevenson -- Soil Lab rap / Calvanita Fipps AKA Nini -- Revaluing emptiness in Chicago / Anjulie Rao -- Community interviews / Craig Stevenson and Benita Marcussen -- The case for reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Building communities / Annette Skov -- On the surface: clay harvesting and processing wild materials / Amara Abdal Figueroa -- Collecting bricks / Will Quam -- Making, a start / Soil Lab -- The expanded field of biennials: Soil Lab enabling change / Ellen Braee -- Tommerup / Soil Lab -- Biographies.

Summary:

"This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab's site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines--across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work--and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and interviews"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1638401063 paperback
9781638401063 paperback

Subject:

Statens kunstfond (Denmark) Exhibitions.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Exhibitions.
Architects and community Exhibitions.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Expositions.
Relations architectes-collectivité Expositions.

Added entries:

Bruun, Maria, editor.
Beaumont, Eleanor, editor.
Martin, James Albert, author.
Ní Chathasaigh, Eibhlín, author.
Dorthe Vester, Anne, author.
Statens kunstfond (Denmark)
Chicago Architecture Biennial (4th : 2021 : Chicago, Ill.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319339
Call No.: 319339
Copy: 1
Status: Available