Infrastructure As Architecture: Designing Composite Networks

Katrina Stoll & Scott Lloyd

ISBN 10: 3868590919 / ISBN 13: 9783868590913

Published by Jovis, Berlin, 2010

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24.0 x 17.0cms 160pp b/w illusts. This book contains essays by influential architects & writers who have evaluated the coupling of the fields of infrastructure & architecture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infrastructure As Architecture: Designing Composite Networks
• Publisher: Jovis, Berlin
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868590919
• ISBN 13: 9783868590913
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Our cities are constantly changing. The last 100 years in particular have seen radical conversions, extensions and the development of residual areas in inner cities which have significantly changed urban panoramas. Urban infrastructures play a pivotal role in conversion processes. These include transport routes, supply and disposal services, communication networks and the like, making a modern functioning city possible. In the publication Infrastructure as Architecture, acclaimed authors and planners show why architects' participation in the design of future urban infrastructures is vital. Theoretical contributions from the fields of economics, ecology, culture, politics, and land use planning investigate the issue from different perspectives. Practical examples and designs provide readers with an exciting glimpse of the future of our cities.

About the Author

Katrina Stoll is an architect, urban designer, and educator. She is currently a teaching fellow at North Carolina State University College of Design. She received a Bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology at Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. From 2007-2008, she taught architecture and theory at Syracuse University. Between 2008 and 2010 she taught architecture and theory, and directed the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design program at the ETH Zürich. Along with Scott Lloyd and Room 11, Katrina developed the IP2100 project, which was featured at the Australian Pavilion for the 2010 Venice Biennale. She contributed to the publication Cities of Change: Addis Ababa.
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Scott Lloyd is the principal of Deliver, a design studio exploring identity through the politics of space and aesthetics. He is currently completing a Master of Science in Architecture at the ETH. He co-edited EPI, the journal of the Beijing Architectural Biennial and curated Spaces of Flow at the National Museum of China, an investigation of China's emerging urban condition. He has worked in architecture and as an art director in Switzerland and China, and on collaborations with Room 11 in Australia - Room 11 work across a broad range of scale and type, incorporating a cross disciplinary approach to architectural design and research.