Imminent Commons, first book from the Seoul Biennale 2017, will present an imminent urban cosmology that is crucially mediated by the technologies and institutions that feed us, move us, condition our environments, recycle our refuse, make our clothes, and connect…
This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international architects, designers and artists, and…
101 Things that Open?and Close the City. 50 leading experts provide tools for analyzing how the Open City is made and unmade. Urban History 101 teaches us that the built environment is not the product of invisible, uncontrollable market forces,…
A (re)planned Obsolescence This book presents a refreshed, design-led approach to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, reflecting work done at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design over a period of three years. Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design…
First publication on the European Prize for Urban Public Space award, compiling a selection of winning projects and reflecting on its ten year history. https://issuu.com/actar/docs/publicspace
This publication critically positions and defines soft systems through 27 projects and 12 articles. An in-depth study of soft systems in design Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In…
Sociopolis is a project for the building of a city neighbourhood of public housing in the 21st century. Under the direction of Vicente Guallart, thirteen international architects (Toyo Ito, MVRDV, FOA, François Roche, etc.) propose schemes for the construction of…
The Built Environment and the Economic Crisis in Iceland. Arna Mathiesen. A guiding model that seeks to address the relationship between the economic meltdown and the built environment in Iceland using eco-logical approaches. New solutions that aspire a long-term balance…
The "How to" Guide is a collection of best practices. More than 70 projects activating public space all over the world are compiled in this Guide. A voyage through nations and experiences that can design a network of places and actors activating best practices in public…
Multiramblas, 6TS Barcelona is a research produced by a “Intelligent Coast” for DHUB – Design Hub of Barcelona, Institute of Culture of City of Barcelona. The research aims to re-think, first, the role of Las Ramblas in Barcelona as “trademark”…