Main entry:

Tolla, Ada.

Title & Author:

LOT-EK : objects + operations / by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano with Thomas De Monchaux.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

399 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Book designed by Sarah Dunham--AIGA Design Archives.
Images : The black-and-white photos on the following pages are selected from the Urban Scan, an ongoing photographic survey started in 1990 and comprising 18,640 images as of December 12, 2016. The chosen photos have been visually sequenced and organized by geometry: circle, cylinder, rectangle, square, cube, grid, triangle, angle, gap, diagonal, line, cross, curve, and circle.
Interviews / [Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano] : Introduction ; Napoli ; Maker ; New York ; Materials ; Container #1 ; Collaboration ; Visionary ; Container #2 ; Scan ; Dirt ; Povera -- Projects : Apap Open School -- Aarhus Architecture School -- New Jalisco Library -- Qiyun Mountain restaurant -- Uniqlo Pop-up -- Qiyun Mountain market -- Water hub -- Istanbul Earth Centre ; Bucket-lamp -- Irving Place carriage house -- Puma City -- Bohen Foundation -- Mobile dwelling unit -- Container mall -- Russel/Fontanez apartment -- Colored ice-wall -- New Taipei City Art Museum -- Civil Rights Library -- Milk bar -- Hong Kong Design Institute -- Lite-Scapes -- Billboard building -- The Cube at Socrates -- Erasmus effect -- Carroll house ; Warehouse 415 -- Mapo Cultural Center -- Whitney Studio -- Afropunk -- Spacious -- Whiteness -- Theatre for one -- Weiner townhouse -- Glass studios ; Band of Outsiders Tokyo -- Band of Outsiders NYC -- C-home -- Total proof -- Taichung Cultural Center -- Boom -- Guggenheim Helsinki -- Pier 57 -- Qiyun Mountain aquatic -- Lite-Scapes -- Blu Gel Bulb -- Sanlitun North -- B737 Hotel -- Metal management -- Drivelines -- Steelcase -- Ascensores Valparaiso -- Strijp-S -- Quarterdeck -- Daegu -- Van Alen Books -- Essays / Tomas de Monchaux : LOT-EK ; Container ; Povera ; TEU x BTU ; Hacker vs. maker ; 19 x 21 ; Dog and Molly through LOT-EK heaven.

Summary:

LOT-EK is a design practice that believes in being unoriginal, ugly, and cheap. Also in being revolutionary, gorgeous, and completely luxurious. LOT-EK's work reveals extraordinary transformations of ordinary things -- from their famous shipping container projects onward -- combining maker culture and hacker culture into beautiful and radical visions for sustainable and meaningful living. 'LOT-EK: Objects + Operations' surveys dozens of projects -- built, unbuilt and in-progress; polemical, practical, and in-between -- complemented by photographs from LOT-EK's multi-year URBAN SCAN project, a vast photographic document of infrastructure and incident, as well as essays by Thomas de Monchaux and interviews with founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.

ISBN:

1580934838 (paperback)
9781580934831 (paperback)

Subject:

Tolla, Ada.
Lignano, Giuseppe.
LOT/EK Architecture.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Buildings, Portable.
Buildings, Prefabricated.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Designs and plans.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Building materials.
Architectural firms New York (State)
Construction Materials
Architecture Innovations.
Constructions transportables.
Constructions préfabriquées.
Architecture 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Construction Matériaux.
Agences d'architecture New York (État)
portable buildings.
prefabrication.
building materials.
Architectural firms
Architecture, Modern
New York (State)

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Lignano, Giuseppe.
De Monchaux, Thomas.
Dunham, Sarah, book designer.

LOT-EK O + O

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297149
Call No.: BIB 243485
Status: Available