Title & Author:

Everything must move : documenting a decade-and-a-half of propositions about the suburban city in general, and Houston in particular : this city--shapeless, polluted, traffic-clogged, water-logged, limitless--is a workshop for testing ideas about operating in impossible situations / edited and designed by Thumb/Luke Bulman and Jessica Young.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Houston : Rice University School of Architecture, ©2009.

Description:

487 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Architecture at Rice ; 44

Notes:
Projects : 1: Houston, inside slowly -- Escape -- Bayouniverse -- The Mass-Democratic-Collagist-Superstore -- The urbanism of the interior -- Terra-industrial -- Sweeny, TX -- Tearing a cleft in the continuous surface of reality -- 2: The liquid house -- Gray space -- Starting with seven suburban houses -- Texas house (again) -- Differentiated bigness, Houston skyscraper -- Tidal flux -- The circuit and the cell -- 3: Land bank -- Rice Building Workshop projects -- House 00 -- 3.5: Nervous substances -- Architectures of pestilence -- Dispensary -- Capsizing the flagship -- Waiting room -- As found: light, space, situation -- Ambulatory clinic -- Acting space ... following the line: architectures of the drawing act -- Crash Hotel -- Jiffy Park -- Maxi Taxi -- mtP: an urban tactic -- Tactile spectrum -- Mobile event structures -- Many, many, many, many parking spaces -- 4: Scale vs. size: mass housing development in Hong Kong -- Edge of city -- Infrastructure -- Intermodal transit center -- Mixed use developments -- A metropolitan library -- Any given Sunday -- washateria/cafateria, laundromat/automat -- Static distorters: an economic living toy -- Locus moment -- Projection bomb -- LIving projection -- SoftCinema -- Not a box -- Video, 1,2,3 -- Reactor -- Hive systems -- Incorporating city -- Capturing the city, spatializing the captured -- Frames -- Play>time -- Outpost kitchen -- Product -- 5: Architecture: an imposition upon reality or reshuffling of worlds? -- Intensive expansion -- Generative proto-architectures -- Symbiosis -- Towards vegetal infrastructure -- Houston needs a mountain: toward a new monumentality -- Vertical zoo -- The garden in the machine -- Staging bands -- Growing atmospheres -- Potential futures -- 6: Houston wet -- Bayou/city -- Strategies for a county park and detention basin -- Hybrid sponges -- The snake that swallowed an egg -- Erasure -- Park space -- Carbon nation -- 7: ¡SUPER NAFTA LAND! -- Postcards from the edge -- Last resorts -- Performative landscapes -- River of trees -- Site amplification -- Sea change, or impending dune -- Waterline: the future of alluvial urbanism in New Orleans -- Spooling.
Texts : It's still architecture to me / John J. Casbarian -- Among houses and tress / Lars Lerup -- The primacy of space / Albert Pope -- Bayouniverse / Keith Krumwiede -- Claiming a stake in the limitless city / Carlos Jiménez -- The law of the street: six split statements / Luis Fernández-Galiano -- The shotgun house in Houston / Stephen Fox -- On touring Houston / Stephen Fox -- A question about thesis / David Brown [and others] -- Stim and dross ; Now ; Toxic ecology / Lars Lerup -- Flying the bullet, or When did the future begin? / Sanford Kwinter -- Super-Houston / Peter Cook -- Seven aphorisms / Lars Lerup -- Leaving / Aaron Betsky.
In conversation : Scounger / Mark Wamble and R.E. Somol -- Third Ward projects / Dawn Finley and Clover Lee -- Studio works / Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray -- 15 responses -- The little books that could / Dung Ngo and Thumb -- A to Z / Lars Lerup and Roemer Van Toorn -- An annotated history.

ISBN:

188523211X
9781885232113

Subject:

Rice University. School of Architecture.
City planning Texas Houston.
City planning
Texas Houston

Added entries:

Bulman, Luke, 1968-
Young, Jessica, 1975-
Thumb (Firm)
Architecture at Rice University ; 44.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261849
Call No.: BIB 192896
Status: Available