Main entry:

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong) (2015 : Hong Kong, China),

Title & Author:

Re-living the city : UABB 2015 catalogue / curated by Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Doreen Heng Liu ; edited by Gideon Fink Shapiro.

Publication:

New York : Actar, 2016.
©2016

Description:

654 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
"This book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of UABB 2015. Four originally separate volumes, prepared before and during the Biennale, were combined to create this rich collection of projects and essays."--Page 11.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword : Re-living the city for a poetic future / UABB Organising Committee -- Introduction / Gideon Fink Shapiro -- Venue map -- A manifesto / Aaron Betsky -- The evolution of radical urbanism / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner and Alexis Kalagas -- Venue renovation : re-living the Dacheng Flour Factory / Doreen Heng Liu -- Free radicals / Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner and Alexis Kalagas -- Radical urbanism exhibits -- Uprooting urban design as we knew it : the 'new normal' and the return of utopia / Pedro Gadanho -- How radical is 'radical urbanism'? / Justin McGuirk -- Autonomy & autodigestion / Lydia Kallipoliti -- Towards collage architecture / Aaron Betsky -- Collage City 3D exhibits -- The art of architectural montage : between give-aways & take-aways / Jimenez Lai -- Collage sources and resources / Gideon Fink Shapiro -- Pearl River Delta 2.0 : balance is more / Doreen Heng Liu -- PRD 2.0 exhibits -- Soft infrastructure : designing the society of Shenzhen's future / Jacob Dreyer -- The Guangzhou Opera House : dissonances in the architecture of cultural reform / Lori Gibbs -- Social city : a project of design+desires / Renny Ramakers -- A new mass craft / Benjamin Ward -- Maker maker exhibits -- National, regional and thematic pavilions -- Outdoor installations -- Aformal academy : re-learning the city -- Participants and awards.

Summary:

This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international architects, designers and artists, and offers 12 probing, original essays.0The projects and essays of 'UABB 2015, Re-Living the City', criticize the status quo of architecture and urbanism, but they also resist the false dream of designing a perfect city from scratch. Instead, they portray the city as the incremental product of its inhabitants and designers, who provisionally make and remake its fabric through various means at their disposal. Urbanization in the world?s fastest growing regions today has a dual character: officially-sanctioned, large-scale development shadowed by unregulated or ?informal? spaces built by disenfranchised migrants. UABB 2015 operates between these poles, seeking alternative paradigms to generate a more sustainable, equitable, and imaginative urbanity. It calls for clean air and water, but also for wider freedom and power to participate in remaking the city and to express one?s place in it. Through experiments and case studies, the curators have embraced a hands-on role for designers, makers, and ordinary residents alike.00Exhibition: Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen & Hong Kong, China (11.12.2015-28.02.2016).

ISBN:

1945150033 (paperback)
9781945150036 (paperback)

Subject:

Urban renewal China Hong Kong Congresses.
Urban renewal China Shenzhen Shi Congresses.
City planning China Hong Kong Congresses.
City planning China Shenzhen Shi Congresses.
Rénovation urbaine Chine Hongkong Congrès.
City planning
Urban renewal
China Hong Kong
China Shenzhen Shi

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Betsky, Aaron.
Brillembourg Tamayo, Alfredo.
Shapiro, Gideon Fink.
Hong Kong Institute of Architects.

Reliving the city
UABB 2015 catalogue

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294377
Call No.: BIB 239926
Status: Available