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Domestic Orbits
"Frida Escobedo's Domestic Orbits is a speculative essay of critical cartography that explores how the domestic space is configured around orbits of exclusion that shape the trajectories of domestic workers. How is the space articulated according to specific gendered, classist, and racist configurations of the social sphere? Organized through a series of case studies that range from the 1950s until today in Mexico City, Domestic Orbits looks at the different scales by which domestic labor is erased by architects and planners. It studies the architectural plans of five well known projects from a perspective that aims highlight the social and economic relationships involved. In that sense, Domestic Orbits sketches a counter-history of modern architecture that questions the duality of the visible and invisible: those who count and those whose not."--Page 4 of cover.
Frida Escobedo: Book of Hours
Celebrated architect Frida Escobedo's meditation on how light transforms and shapes the built environment How does light transform the objects it shines upon? What are the consequences of such a metamorphosis on architectural thought? This visually arresting book seeks to answer these questions. Book of Hourspresents the research of Mexican architect Frida Escobedo (born 1979) on this topic. Escobedo designs and restores housing, community centers, art venues and hotels. In 2018, she became the youngest architect to work on the Serpentine Pavilion, and the second woman to be invited after Zaha Hadid. Throughout her oeuvre, Escobedo has continuously probed the transformative effects of light on matter. This volume compiles stills from time-lapses Escobedo meticulously filmed during her research; these stills illustrate the interplay between light and shadow throughout the day. Its translucent paper mimics the permeable barrier between light sources and objects, underscoring the impermanence of matter.
Young Architects 11
The architects, selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young Architects Competition, present forward-thinking projects that imagine an effective role for architecture in the years to come. -- back cover.
Frida Escobedo
Architect Frida Escobedo's early project Split Subject deconstructs a fraught allegory of national identity and modernism in Mexico. Frida Escobedo: Split Subject unpacks it and traces its influence throughout her career, and includes essays by Julieta Gonzalez, Alejandro Hernández, Erika Naginski, Doris Sommer and José Falconi, and Irene Sunwoo.
John Andrews
Though celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews' fame waned over time. His body of work exemplifies the late-modern development of architecture and deserves to be better known. John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and presents his local and international legacy.
The Amber Fury
*** From the bestselling author of Stone Blind and A Thousand Ships *** When you open up, who will you let in? Alex Morris has lost everything: her relationship, her career and her faith in the future. Moving to Edinburgh to escape her demons, Alex takes a job teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit. It's a place for kids whose behaviour is so extreme that they cannot be taught in a regular classroom. Alex is fragile with grief and way out of her depth. Her fourth-year students are troubled and violent. Desperate to reach them, Alex turns to the stories she knows best. Greek tragedy isn't the most obvious way to win over such damaged children, yet these tales of fate, family and vengeance speak directly to them. Enthralled by the bloodthirsty justice of the ancient world, the teenagers begin to weave the threads of their own tragedy - one that Alex watches, helpless to prevent.
The City on Display
The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of ‘planetary urbanisation’. Joel Robinson examines the development of these large-scale, international, and perennial exhibitions as they address such challenges as urban regeneration, heritage preservation, climate change, and the migration crisis. Homing in on examples of festivals in Venice, Rotterdam, Oslo, Tallinn, Sharjah, Seoul, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, the author describes how they alter the public spaces that host them, eith...
Something Fantastic
Something Fantastic is the multifaceted manifesto of three young architects - Julian Schubert, Elena Schütz and Leonard Streich. It is also the name of their new Berlin-based studio; both book and studio derive from a diploma thesis at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Something Fantastic calls for increased consciousness in architectural thought and action, particularly in relation to the environment, energy and contemporary politics. Excerpts from thinkers and theorists - from Thomas Hobbes to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - and interviews, including with Markus Miessen and Werner Sobek, inform a publication determined to call for change, and offer hope for the future.
Thought by Hand
Documents the work of FLores and Prats, an architecture studio founded in Barcelona in 1998 that combines project design and construction with a strong focus on academic activities at a number of universities.
