Title & Author:

Coupling : strategies for infrastructural opportunism / InfraNet Lab/Lateral Office, Neeraj Bhatia [and others].

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2011.

Description:

79 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Series:

Pamphlet architecture ; 30

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Urbanism after form / Charles Waldheim -- Formatting contingency / InfraNet Lab/Lateral Office -- Fresh field / Keller Easterling -- Water ecologies/economies -- Land reservations -- Re-rigging -- The architectural reconstruction of geography / David Gissen -- Next north -- Wiring runways -- Icelink -- Afterword : figuring it out / Christopher Hight.
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Summary:

Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Neeraj Bhatia, and Maya Przybylski collaborate as a nonprofit research collective, called InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office, whose purpose is to probe the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics. Coupling locates new, small-scale potentials for infrastructure in unexpected places and illustrates a collection of projects with strong graphics, design, and thematic organization. The twentieth century witnessed both an infrastructure boom and bust. It is the twenty-first century that will need to project not only how to address crumbling and insufficient infrastructure, but also how to position new infrastructures that confront urgent issues of climate change, sustenance inequality, and our increasingly urbanized world. Twenty-firstcentury infrastructure should create a new public realm, enrich political policy, and embed productive processes. Coupling strategizes new formats for the physical infrastructure required. Coupling argues, through a body of design and research proposals, that infrastructures behave as artificially maintained natural systems. Future models of infrastructure lie in bundling processes with spatial experiences. The intention is to counter the usual deployment of infrastructures as hard systems, instead seeking the performance of soft, multivalent systems. Rather than a New Deal approach of massive engineering or iconic infrastructure, Coupling employs adaptable, responsive, small-scale interventions whose impacts are global in scale. Easily upgraded, this vision for infrastructure creates new sites for production, recreation, and civic life. The ambition is to supplement human and natural ecologies at risk rather than overhaul them. Shifting away from monofunctional infrastructure, the proposed visions meld existing landscapes with emergent infrastructures in order to catalyze new ecologies, economies, and most significantly, a new social infrastructure.

ISBN:

9781568989853 (alk. paper)
1568989857 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Infrastructure (Economics) Planning.
Engineering design.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Conception technique.
Architektur.
Infrastruktur.

Added entries:

Bhatia, Neeraj, 1980-
InfraNet Lab (Firm)
Lateral Office (Firm)
Pamphlet architecture ; no. 30.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271188
Call No.: BIB 204119
Status: Available