This is Temporary: how transient projects are redefining architecture

Cate St Hill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2016
RIBA Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85946-606-3 (ISBN)

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Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded ‘pop-ups’ and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic architecture that is subtly suggesting how we could live, work and play more harmoniously together. Featuring revealing interviews with 13 young, emerging and socially-minded practices from New York and Santiago to London, Berlin and Zurich it also analyses this phenomenon in critical essays by well-respected practitioners and thinkers. Providing a highly personal insight into the architects’ experience, the design process, the challenges they encountered and how it affected their practice it sheds light on the growth of multidisciplinary collectives, community engagement and more participatory ways of designing, making and building. Including highly illustrated and imaginative projects ranging from a floating cinema and tiny travelling theatre, through ad-hoc structures made of found objects and discarded materials, and blow-up plastic bubbles, to a community lido and market restaurant this will open your eyes as to what is possible in architecture.

Exploring alternative modes of practice this will provide inspiration for all architecture students, architects, artists, designers, planners and developers wishing to create empowering and unique structures in neglected, disused and sometimes inaccessible parts of our cities.

Cate St Hill is an architecture and design writer, currently writing for bi-monthly publication Blueprint, and previously for Building Design. She has also worked at the British Council and as a researcher for FAT Architecture and Crimson Architectural Historians’ British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Cate completed her Part 1 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, before working for a couple of years in practice and receiving a Masters in Architectural History, also from the Bartlett. Cate currently lives in London and has a popular self-titled design and architecture blog: http://catesthill.com.

Foreword

About the Editor and contributing authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Young Architects Programmes: Testing, testing, testing…

Interview 1: The Living

Interview 2: GUN Architects

Chapter 2: Public realm and engagement: facilitating possibilities and animating places

Interview 3: We Made That

Interview 4: The Decorators

Perspective by Shumi Bose

Chapter 3: Playful storytellers: digging deeper and building narratives

Interview 5: Aberrant Architecture

Interview 6: Studio Weave

Chapter 4: Collectives and self-initiated proejcts: making it up as you go along

Interview 7: Assemble

Interview 8: EXYZT

Interview 9: Practice Architecture
Perspective by Mariana Pestana ‘Building Alternative Possible Worlds with Temporary Projects’

Chapter 5: Participative building and materiality: scarcity of resources and a platform for communication

Interview 10: Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser

Interview 11: Plastique Fantastique

Chapter 6: The art world and temporary architecture: the meeting of two disciplines

Interview 12: GRUPPE

Interview 13: Morag Myerscough

Perspective by Cany Ash ‘Learning from Canning Town Caravanserai: a temporary town and its legacy’

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 209 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-85946-606-0 / 1859466060
ISBN-13	978-1-85946-606-3 / 9781859466063
Zustand	Neuware