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Beyond Petropolis Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja

Preface by Michael Sorkin Essays by Matthias Altwicker / Ana María Durán Calisto / Patrick Radden Keefe / David Leven / Michael Sorkin / Achva Benzinberg Stein and Osvaldo Paladines Zurita Edited by Michael Sorkin / Ana María Durán Calisto and Matthias Altwicker Each year, the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York travels to a city somewhere in the world that is experiencing a revelatory form of stress. In January of 2006 joined by students and faculty from the Universidad Catolica in Quito and from the architecture and landscape programs at CCNY – the destination of the group was the small town of Nueva Loja in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. 

At the time, a population of around 100,000 was expanding exponentially. Nueva Loja was the fastest growing municipality in the country. There was one reason for this: the oil boom. Indeed, almost everyone calls the place “Lago Agrio” – Bitter Lake, after the town in Texas that houses the headquarters of Texaco, the first petroleum giant on the scene. There’s little irony in this name. As the endless lawsuit against Chevron, Texaco’s successor, has made abundantly clear, Lago’s growth has come at the cost of extremely bitter consequences. The group was inspired to visit by a more particular observation: Lago’s projected rate of growth would see the population exceed 150,000 at just the moment the oil ran out. And so, they decided to investigate what might happen then, how Nueva Loja could move beyond oil to an economy and urban pattern that embrace renewed harmony with the natural environment and is dedicated to creating an intensely humane and supportive place for its inhabitants.

The projects in this volume represent a series of propositions for such a place. They are utopian in that they look to a time of harmony and prosperity but intensely practical in that they stem from the specifics of people and place and utilize simple, historical, and local technologies, not any magic fix.

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Book Size: 11.6 x 8.26 in / 297 x 210 mm Format: Landscape Pages: 368 Language: English with Spanish TranslationPhotographs: 210 Illustrations: 780 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-988-16194-2-6)

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• This wholly unique book explores one of the most relevant lawsuits in the history of architecture

• Features multiple essays by major architectural thinkers

• An elaborate examination of an extraordinary test case with regards to design as community saviour

• Text in both English and Spanish

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Last week, I graduated from the #SpitzerSchoolOfArchitecture with my #MastersInArchitecture ~ As I transition back into my architectural practice, I'm grateful to the patience + love of my friends, family, mentors and especially my amazing classmates throughout these last three years of #ModelMaking #Rendering and #RedBullFueledAllNighters 🎓 (at New York, New York)

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FINAL REVIEW - @digitaltechniques

House for an impermanent dweller - Studio Project 

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...Getting somewhere good with these renderings.

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Fluvial Metropolis Past Visions/Future Imaginaries

Authored by Mario Gandelsonas and Alexandre Delijaicov Edited by Evangelos Kotsioris

The Fluvial Metropolis initiative was created as a joint University of São Paulo (USP)/Princeton University 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 refecit on the project’s potentials and precedents, including the nineteenth-century canal systems in the United States. Read more: LINK

City Sink Carbon Cycle Infrastructure for our Built Environments

Written by Denise Hoffman Brandt Foreword by Michael Sorkin

City Sink is a design research proposal for a meta-park of dispersed landscape infrastructure to boost carbon stocks in biomass and through formation of long-term sequestration reservoirs for soil organic carbon in New York City and Long Island. City Sink research merges urban land-use lifecycles and the carbon cycle to describe a systemic response to elevated atmospheric carbon levels provoking climate change. The project is a model for reimagining urban landscapes as urban ecological infrastructure. More details: LINK

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The Legacy Project: Best Practices in Affordable, Sustainable, Replicable Housing Design

Hardcover in clamshell box

The publication discusses the lessons of two international competitions and complementary revisions to procurement and implementation processes. As America’s urban population grows, its cities will be called upon to draw inspiration from one another’s successes. This document is an important step in promoting such dialogue.

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Generic Specific Continuum Julio Salcedo / Scalar Architecture

Hardcover

This book presents the work of the Spanish architect Julio Salcedo in a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo’s houses, early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their fresh originality and precocious sophistication, are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for large-scale buildings.

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Displaced Llonch+Vidalle Architecture

The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle  presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in which the artist’s truth always shines through the circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book are felled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that intricate and inde finable nexus of architecture and its theory in which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of ideas in architecture and design.

Book Size: 7.25 x 9.25 in / 185 x 235 mmBox Size: 7.50 x 9.50 x 1.25 in / 190 x 241 x 30 mm

Format: Portrait | Pages: 272

Language: English | Photographs: 65 | Illustrations: 490 Edition: Hardcover in clamshell box (978-988-15125-2-9)

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City Sink Carbon Cycle Infrastructure for our Built Environments

Hardcover in clamshell box

City Sink is a design research proposal for a meta-park of dispersed landscape infrastructure to boost carbon stocks in biomass and through formation of long-term sequestration reservoirs for soil organic carbon in New York City and Long Island. City Sink research merges urban land-use lifecycles and the carbon cycle to describe a systemic response to elevated atmospheric carbon levels provoking climate change. The project is a model for reimagining urban landscapes as urban ecological infrastructure.

Read more and purchase online: HERE

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