-Socrates
The Fluvial Metropolis initiative was created as a joint University of São Paulo (USP) and Princeton University’s Strategic Partnership for Teaching and Research, to conduct a research program on the future of water infrastructure and its potential effects on urban space and form. The initial object of study was a recent project in São Paulo that proposed a far-reaching intervention in South America’s largest metropolis, the Hidroanel, a 170-kilometer-long Waterway Ring that sought to radically re-organize the city’s growth. The research network includes scholars from various disciplines at Princeton and USP, who reflect on the project’s potentials and precedents, including the nineteenth-century canal systems in the United States. In the process, the initiative seeks to add historical and socio-cultural dimensions to the scientific, technological, and policy aspects raised by the São Paulo’s Waterway Ring project. Thus, the network intends to bridge the environmental sciences, the social sciences, architecture, the arts, and the humanities in innovative ways.
Water has always been the most crucial of resources; yet, until relatively recently, humankind has been callous about respecting and utilizing it. São Paolo’s Hidroanel urban planning project represents a radical, and vital, rethinking of the way we incorporate and harness our waterways in the planning of urban environments. Bridging environmental sciences, social sciences, architecture, the arts, and the humanities in innovative ways, through a comprehensive study by two of the world’s most respected academic entities, Fluvial Metropolis is a necessary exploration of new concepts of water infrastructure that respond to the emerging demands of twenty-first century urbanization in contrast to the technocratic management that characterized the twentieth century.
Boasting a complete glimpse into the initiative and its findings in toto, this beautifully designed and illustrated book features critical writings from architectural scholars Mario Gandelsonas and Alexandre Delijaicov, and is fully bilingual in English and Portuguese.
A major work investigating a critical issue in how we design our environments, and, ultimately, design the future of human living.
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
-I.M. Pei
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-Jean Cocteau, Call to Order
Oscar Wilde once wrote ‘to get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.’ Sparkling epigram though it is, it suggests a path towards folly, rather than redemption. CALL TO ORDER, on the other hand, espouses examining the past to predict, and dictate, our present.
The first in a series of books to be produced by the University of Miami School of Architecture, is inspired by rappel l’ordre, the post WWI, European, art movement that rejected the extreme tenets of the avant garde and its praise of machinery, violence and war, in favour of a renewed interest in tradition. CALL TO ORDER, suggests a re-grouping and a re-grounding upon the foundations of the discipline and examines an international group of architects who are ostensibly rehearsing the ethos of the Neo-rationalist movement when architects and thinkers converged in their resistance to what they saw as an erosion of the discipline by behaviourism and the social sciences. CALL TO ORDER frames and examines similar resistant practices in the contemporary architectural scene and in the context of a long historical trajectory to tease out and articulate a cultural project that is relevant to the ongoing architectural debate.
The book frames and examines similar resistant practices in the contemporary architectural scene and in the context of a long historical trajectory to tease out and articulate a cultural project that is relevant to the ongoing architectural debate.
CALL TO ORDER, suggests a re-grouping and a re-grounding upon the foundations of the discipline and examines an international group of architects who are ostensibly rehearsing the ethos of the Neo-rationalist movement when architects and thinkers converged in their resistance to what they saw as an erosion of the discipline by behaviorism and the social sciences.
A cohesive examination of the highly influential output of the University of Miami School of Architecture, including writings by illustrious architects and scholars including Carie Penabad, Rodolphe El-Khoury, Jean-François Lejeune, Esteban Salcedo, Katherine Wheeler, and Adib Curé, as well as a Young Architects Symposium, exploring the tenets of post-rationalism, highlighting dozens of projects, both conceptual and built, from students and alumni alike.
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Architecture has been a vital part of Max Strang's life since an early age. He grew up in a house designed by the noted 'Sarasota School' architect Gene Leedy, who happened to be the father of his closest childhood friend. Many youthful days were spent tagging along to build sites, inspiring a love of design that only fully manifested years later. Early in his career he worked for Leedy, then Zaha Hadid and SHoP Architects, before returning to Florida to start his eponymous firm, which uses each successive project to physically manifest theories born of Strang’s early exposure to the modernist works of the Sarasota School of Architecture and the modernist works who celebrated the Florida climate, creating contemporary structures intimately connected to their surroundings.
The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firm’s site-specific and climate-driven designs. The ability to create stunning architectural designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the surrounding environment has come to define their work. Under the creative direction of Max Strang FAIA, the Miami-based firm continues to advance many of the timeless concepts set forth by the famed Sarasota School of Architecture. Strang’s early exposure to that mid-century modernist movement resulted in a deep respect for structures that are intimately connected to their surroundings as they celebrate the Florida climate.
This first monograph of Strang’s work contains a collection of conceptual drawings, text and professional photography that underscores the ongoing relevance and importance of regional modernist design. It is the architectural responses to site and climate that infuse the specific designs with character and identity, resulting in a uniquely Floridian version of modernism.
This essential monograph, the first on the award-winning Miami and Telluride-based firm, features twelve waterfront residences and a chronology section with additional built and unbuilt work. Photography by Claudia Uribe Touri, Claudio Manzoni, Ezra Stoller, Gene Leedy, Paul Warchol and others, are bolstered by essays on Florida Modern Architecture by the design and culture critic Byron Hawes.
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