The World as an Architectural Project

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Hashim Sarkis (Dean, MIT) Roi Salgueiro Barrio (Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The World as an Architectural Project

Hashim Sarkis (Dean, MIT), Roi Salgueiro Barrio (Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gabriel Kozlowski (Teaching Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
17 March 2020

City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture

Series: The MIT Press

Architects imagine the planet- fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others.

The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale.

The World as an Architectural Projectshows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind.

Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 envisions a system that connects the entire planet in a linear urban network. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller's ""World Town Plan-4D Tower"" proposes to solve global housing problems with mobile structures delivered and installed by a Zeppelin. And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide ""City of Seven Billion"" in a 2015-2019 project. Rather than indulging the cliche of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities.

By: Hashim Sarkis (Dean MIT), Roi Salgueiro Barrio (Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gabriel Kozlowski (Teaching Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 44mm
ISBN: 9780262043960
ISBN 10: 0262043963
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hashim Sarkis is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and principal architect in HashimSarkis Studios, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Beirut. He is Curator of the 2020 Venice Architectural Biennale. His work was shown in the United States Pavilion at the 2014 edition of the Biennale and he served on the Biennale's international jury in 2016. Roi Salgueiro Barrio, an architect and urbanist, is an instructor at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Gabriel Kozlowski, an architect and curator, is a Research Associate at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

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