Urban Hopes: Made in China by Steven Holl

Urban Hopes: Made in China by Steven Holl by KUMPUSCH CHRISTOPH


ISBN
9783037783764
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Dimensions
240 x 340mm

Embracing that which could dominate us?the city, infrastructure and overpopulation?has been part of the process of Steven Holl Architects as the office has taken on work of increasing complexity and scale in China over the past decade. The projects featured in this book play a serious game with scale and the dynamic between micro and macro. There is no in-between, no easy hybridity, but a study of contrasting and nested scales that acknowledge the fact that the city-dweller's perception across a given day necessarily morphs from micro to macro in cycles. In content and format the book reflects such juxtaposition, featuring large format images and graphic documentation of Steven Holl's recent works realized in China alongside critiques and analyses offered by a new generation of theorists. Its pages are considered sites capable of handling plurality, contradiction and excess. It reads like the passing views from a commuter train and looks like a rough script for a new notion of urbanism. AUTHOR: Christoph Kumpusch is a New York-based architect and the principal of Forward slash (/) c.a.k Productions. He is a professor of architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Pratt Institute. Steven Holl, born 1947, is an American architect, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the praised 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed use complex in Beijing, China. 166 illustrations
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