CAZA + SURBA: When Urbanization Comes to Ground
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Rating | : | 4.11 (698 Votes) |
Asin | : | 191133901X |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-05-23 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It searches for a field guide to everyday urban life by offering palpable views into the network of relations that characterise this evolving social ecosystem. CAZA + SURBA: When Urbanization Comes to Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter G Rowe. From “Robots, Utilidors, and a Brave New World” to “A Third Way Towards Metropolitanism” and “Tagging Thingness and Scale”, this publication questions the role of architecture and its related disciplines in the wake of the masterplan. Instead, this book oscillates from one rendering of urbanisation to another, alternating scales and media in order to present the topic of the city and its encapsulated processes through the same phenomena that inform it.. Through their collective global research projects, CAZA and SURBA frame, abstract, poeticise and render the city as a historical proces
. About the Author Carloz Arnaiz is a spearheading member of SURBA, an urban research collective.Alongside Carloz Arnaiz, Peter Rowe is a spearheading member of SURBA, an urban research collective
. Carloz Arnaiz is a spearheading member of SURBA, an urban research collective.Alongside Carloz Arnaiz, Peter Rowe is a spearheading member of SURBA, an urban research collective