Bracket 3 [at Extremes] - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989331768 ISBN 13: 9780989331760

Publisher: Actar Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Bracket [at Extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive? Bracket [at Extremes] seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention? What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions?

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Review:

..". there are scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive. The contributors to "Bracket 3: At Extremes" seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention? What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions? Exceptionally well organized and presented, "Bracket 3: At Extremes" is a unique, original, and highly recommended addition to professional, college, and university library Contemporary Architecture collections and supplemental studies reading lists." --Midwest Book Review

"Lying at the intersection of architecture, geography, design, and art, this volume of the almanac series Bracket explores the risks and extremes of man-made and natural spaces, architecture, landscapes, and urban models. Essays and artwork explore how these spaces may change in response to economic, social, and environmental conditions. Material is grouped in thematic sections on areas such as tapping resources, pushing frontiers, edging demographics, expanding processes, and hacking ecologies. Some specific topics examined include frontiers and borders in the American landscape, land management tribes, avant-garde real estate in Japan, and astronomy in the Atacama Desert. The book contains color photos, maps, and illustrations on every page." --Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, ProtoView

About the Author:

Lola Sheppard received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. she has taught at the University of Toronto, Ohio State University, and California College of the Arts. She previously worked in the offices of Jean Nouvel (Paris), Peter Rose (Cambridge), and Allies and Morrison (London) before forming LATERAL OFFICE. She is committed to architecture's new relationship to social and ecological possibilities - not just solutions. Sheppard is the recipient of the 2012 RAIC Young Architect Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Actar Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0989331768
• ISBN 13: 9780989331760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Sheppard Lola, Przybylski Maya