Main entry:

Parasite paradise. English.

Title & Author:

Parasite paradise : a manifesto for temporary architecture and flexible urbanism / [compilation and editing, Liesbeth Melis ; translation, John Kirkpatrick].

Publication:

Description:

186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Issued in conjunction with an open-air exhibition, Aug. 1-Sept. 29, 2003 in Leidsche Rijn, near Utrecht.
Also available in a Dutch edition.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Tom van Gestel -- The art of unsettling : mobile architecture and its political surplus value / Gijs van Oenen -- From clusters to smallness : flexible and temporary facilities in Liedsche Rijn / Ivan Nio -- An interview with Peter Kuenzli / Olof Koekebakker -- Futuro / Matti Suuronen -- Hotelit / Vadim Fishkin, Yuri Leiderman -- Mobile linear city / Vito Acconci -- Markies / Eduard Böhtlingk -- Pioniersset / Atelier van Lieshout -- Mini capsule side entrance (6 units) / Atelier van Lieshout -- Boerenwereldkeukenrestaurant / Maurer United Architects -- Bar Raketa / Inge Roseboom, Mark Weemen -- Zusatzraum 1 / Exilhäuser Architekten -- Zusatzraum 2 / Exilhäuser Architekten -- Orbino / Luc Deleu -- paraSITE / Attila Foundation -- Billboardhouses / Alicia Framis -- Dome / Shigeru Ban -- Mobile porch / Kathrin Böhm & Stefan Saffer, Andreas Lang -- Miele ruimtestation / 2012 Architecten -- Lichtspielhaus / Wolfgang Winter, Berthold Hörbelt -- Dodenbivak / Dré Wapenaar -- Agora Phobia (digitalis) / Karen Lancel -- Mobile / André van Bergen -- Mobile unit-shed / Daniel Milohnic, Dirk Paschke & Lex Rijkers, Steffi Harzbecher -- Nomads in residence / Bik VanderPol & Korteknie Stuhlmacher architecten -- Sainte Bazeille / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Mobile architecture in the twentieth century / Hans Ibelings -- Portrait of the artist as an architect / Jennifer Allen.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Parasites are flexible and temporary structures, designed by artists or architects, that feed off existing infrastructure. Parasite Paradise documents 23 projects that respond on their own terms to new and unforeseen demands. Many of these parasites have settled in the government-designed 'Vinex' district of Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht, turning a district almost exclusively concerned with dwelling into a more urban entity." "What do these small, mobile architectural interventions mean for our strictly regulated society and for the planning of architecture and urbanism? What sense (or nonsense) is there in mobile architecture from a historical perspective? How much of it is art and how much is architecture? Contributions by Jennifer Allen, Hans Ibelings, Olof Koekebakker, Ivan Nio and Gijs van Oenen examine these issues in depth." "Parasite Paradise encourages us to consider a new approach to planning, one where not everything is fixed beforehand. This makes it required reading for architects, urban planners and artists whose concern is designing urban space."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9056623303
9789056623302
905662329X (Dutch ed.)
9789056623296 (Dutch ed.)

Subject:

Buildings, Portable Netherlands.
Buildings, Temporary Netherlands.
Flexible structures Netherlands.
Buildings, Portable Netherlands Utrecht Exhibitions.
Constructions transportables Pays-Bas Utrecht Expositions.
Structures flexibles Pays-Bas Utrecht Expositions.
Constructions transportables Pays-Bas.
Constructions provisoires Pays-Bas.
Structures flexibles Pays-Bas.
Buildings, Portable
Buildings, Temporary
Flexible structures
Fliegende Bauten
Flexible structures Netherlands Utrecht Exhibitions.
Constructions transportables Utrecht (Pays-Bas)
Structures flexibles Utrecht (Pays-Bas)
Construction mobile.
Buildings, Portable Exhibitions.
Flexible structures Exhibitions.
Netherlands Utrecht
Netherlands

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Melis, Liesbeth.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243495
Call No.: NA8480 .P37 2003
Status: Available