Socializing Architecture : Top Down / Bottom Up

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ISBN 10: 3775743227 / ISBN 13: 9783775743228

Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag Feb 2023, 2023

Beschreibung

Neuware - At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture,and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architectsand urbanists to mobilize a new public imaginationtoward a more just and equitable urbanization.Drawn from decades of lived experience, Teddy Cruz andFonna Forman engage the San Diego -Tijuana borderregion as a global laboratory to address the central challengesof urbanization today: deepening social andeconomic inequality, dramatic migratory shifts, explosiveurban informality, climate disruption, the thickeningof border walls, and the decline of public thinking.Following Spatializing Justice, Socializing Architecture isthe second part of a two-volume monograph. It continuesto build a compelling case for architects and urbandesigners to intervene in the contested space betweenpublic and private interests. Through analysis and diversecase studies, the authors demonstrate strategies for alteringexclusionary urban policies and advancing instead amore equitable and convivial architecture.Professors Cruz and Forman are principals in ESTUDIO TEDDYCRUZ + FONNA FORMAN, a research-based political and architecturalpractice in San Diego. They lead a variety of urbanresearch agendas and civic/public interventions in the SanDiego-Tijuana border region and beyond. They also direct theUniversity of California, San Diego's Center on Global Justice,which focuses on community-based solutions to poverty andenvironmental crisis.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783775743228

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Socializing Architecture : Top Down / Bottom Up
• Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag Feb 2023
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3775743227
• ISBN-13: 9783775743228
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 244B x 172 H x 36 T Millimeter Breite: 244 mm, Höhe: 172 mm, Tiefe: 36 mm
• Gewicht: 1262 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The urban research projects of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman made the Tijuana-San Diego border region a global laboratory for engaging the central challenges of urbanization. The projects engage urban and political confl ict as a creative tool, and demonstrate the capacity of architecture and design to confront exclusion and homogenization in the city, and propose alternative strategies for more inclusive urban development.

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Professors Cruz and Forman are principals in ESTUDIO TEDDY CRUZ + FONNA FORMAN, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego. They lead a variety of urban research agendas and civic/public interventions in the San Diego–Tijuana border region and beyond. They also direct the University of California, San Diego’s Center on Global Justice, which focuses on community-based solutions to poverty and environmental crisis.