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Landscrapers : building with the land

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Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature’s geological formations. Only recently, however, have developments in structural engineering made it possible to engage the earth’s surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet’s limited natural resources, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth and merging man-made forms with the contours of the land. The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid’s Tram Terminal in France to Snøhetta’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, from Future System’s hill-burrowing house in Wales to Antoine Predock’s Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects displayed here expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture. Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building, then four central chapters – ‘Engineered Utopias’, ‘Caves and Caverns’, ‘Unfolding the Land’ and ‘A New Nature’ – explore the ways in which ‘geotecture’ responds to, becomes a part of and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape.

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Don't build, rebuild

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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well. Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.

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Icons : magnets of meaning

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Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this striking volume explores selected icons as benchmarks for the current state of design and suggests new ways to look at the interconnectedness of design, consumer culture, and the aesthetics of desire.

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Re-naturalisation

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As Aaron Betsky notes in his introductory essay, that while Guallart is an active member of what has been called emergent architecture, his practice goes further, generating a body of work that emerges from both physical and social – both real and digital – structures. While the architect himself suggests that the end purpose of architecture is not (solely) to build, but also to define environments where human life can be organised. To support these observations, such projects as Denia Mountain, the Spanish Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010, the Keelung Maritime Plaza and Fugee Port in Taiwan, the Cambrils Sea Apartments and the Sociopolis Masterplan, Valencia are examined. Seventeen works and projects are presented in total, accompanied by essays, texts, photographs and elaborate technical drawings. Texts in English/Chinese

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 5: manifestos. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Atelier Bow-Wow / Aaron Betsky / Coop Himelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano Fuksas / Frank Gehry / Vincente Guallart / Greg Lynn / Winy Maas (MVRDV) / Philippe Rahm / Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos (UNStudio) and more.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 3: experimental architecture. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. 2012 Architecten / Ecologicstudio / Estudio Teddy Cruz / Faustino, Bureau des Mésarchitectures / Zaha Hadid Architects / Herzog & DeMeuron and Ai Weiwei / LOT-EK / Map Office / R & SIE + DS / Topotek 1 / Madelon Vriesendorp / Lebbeus Woods, and many more. Each displayed at least on a double page.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 2: hall of fragments. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. This volume documents the film installation withing the exhibition, which features film excerpts of "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "La cité des enfants perdus" by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Waterworld" by Kevin Reynolds, "The Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson, "The Truman Show" by Peter Weir, and many more.

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Out there: architecture beyond building, volume 1: installations. La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale die Architettura

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Exclusively available in single volumes at the CCA Bookstore. Asymptote Architecture / Atelier Bow-Wow / Barkow Leibinger / Nigel Coates / Coop Himmelb(l)au / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Droog & Kesselskramer / Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas / Gehry Partners, LLP, and many more, each contribution displayed on at least a double page.

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Architecture must burn

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Confronted by a world afflicted by sprawl, Aaron Betsky challenges us to see architecture as a way of understanding, experimenting with and changing our physical reality. He argues passionately for a new space of freedom and imagination, proposing an entirely new way of undoing the indiscriminate, sometimes disorderly world we have so carelessly constructed. "Architecture Must Burn" shows us an architecture of unfolding, clothing and collage. Mixing current theories about spatiality, technology, and literature, the 28 manifestos are introduced by Erik Adigard's haunting and contorted imagery.

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Lot-ek : mobile dwelling unit

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Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the wider and much more invisible system of distribution, of just-in-time-inventory, of information networks in which the container moves. LOT/EK, the New York-based studio with a reputation for creating architecture and environments using industrial objects, here takes on the standard shipping container as medium. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is "a shipping container transformed into a dwelling that nevertheless retains the attributes of a shipping container, i.e. it remains shippable." It is a "discreet mobile element" that can be moved around the globe, to anywhere with that can receive standard shipping containers. It's full-service interior includes push-out elements with space for sleeping, storage, eating, bathing, and cooking; these elements can be pushed smoothly back into the container when the occupant moves and needs to ship his or her living space along. Consider the MDU a trailer home for travelling between global villages. LOT/EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit, the book, will not only document the MDU concept but will provide greater understanding of the work’s cultural and social context with essays by leading architectural critics, theorists, historians, and practitioners. An interview with the designers by Chris Scoates will illuminate LOT/EK’s process in the creation and development of the MDU as well as their unique approach to architecture. Henry Urbach will place the MDU project in the context of LOT/EK’s larger body of work. Professor Robert Kronenberg, a leading expert on portable architecture, will consider the project within the history of the genre. Aaron Betsky, a leading design critic and Director of NAi, will explore the meaning of the MDU within a larger contemporary cultural and social context of mobility and habitation. A visual essay by Andrew Blauvelt and LOT/EK will explore the territories of the MDU’s inspiration and related themes of nomadic travel and industrial systems of transportation.