Cities Under Pressure: A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9783966800235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 192 str.

Benno Albrecht; Jacopo Galli

Opis

Cities Under Pressure presents a concrete idea for the sustainable reconstruction of cities and territories involved in extreme traumatic events. It is a radical but necessary hypothesis introducing a new intervention strategy and design paradigm capable of controlling the upcoming processes of urban metamorphosis imposed by the current global challenges.

O autorze

Benno Albrecht is the rector of the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV). He has devoted his entire professional and academic career to the study of sustainability, combining research and architectural practice. In 2016, he established the Iuav Urbicide Task Force, a think tank conducting multidisciplinary research on urban and social reconstruction. Jacopo Galli is an assistant professor at the Università Iuav di Venezia and an associate researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has authored various books and papers, lectured at numerous universities, curated international exhibitions, and provided consultancy to different international organizations.