Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415533546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 280 str.

Rory Hyde

Opis

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role for designers to occupy. Whether the "civic entrepreneur," the "double agent," or the "strategic designer," this book offers a diverse spectrum of approaches to design, each offering a potential future for architectural practice. With a foreword by Dan Hill and interviews with Steve Ashton, ARM; Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab; Camila Bustamante; Mel Dodd, muf_aus; DUS Architects; Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang; Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO; Conrad Hamann; Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic; Indy Johar, 00: /;Bruce Mau; Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume; Todd Reisz; Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson; Matt Webb, BERG; Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle; and Liam Young, Unknown Fields

Spis treści

Foreword Dan Hill.  Introduction.  Conversations  1. The Massive Changer: Bruce Mau  2. The Civic Entrepreneur: Indy Johar, 00:/  3. The Whole Earth Architect: Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird, AMO  4. The Double Agent: Mel Dodd, muf_aus  5. The Historian of the Present: Wouter Vanstiphout, Crimson  6. The Urban Activist: Camila Bustamante  7. The Contractual Innovator: Steve Ashton, ARM  8. The Near Future Inventor: Matt Webb, BERG  9. The Strategic Designer: Bryan Boyer, Helsinki Design Lab  10. The Management Thinkers: Todd Reisz on Consultants  11. The Community Enabler: Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle  12. The New Amsterdam Schoolt: DUS Architects  13. The Professional Generalist: Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang  14. The Architect as Public Intellectual: Conrad Hamann on Robin Boyd  15. The Educator of Excess: Liam Young, Unknown Fields  16. The Editor of the Beyond: Arjen Oosterman and Lilet Breddels, Volume  17. The Environmental Medic: Natalie Jeremijenko, xClinic.  Endnotes. Index.  Colophon

O autorze

Rory Hyde is a practicing architect working across design, research, broadcasting and building. He is contributing editor of Architecture Australia, and co-host of The Architects, a weekly radio show on architecture, which will be presented in the Australian pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Based in Amsterdam since 2009, Rory has worked with Volume magazine, MVRDV, the NAi, Viktor & Rolf, and Mediamatic.