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.
Rather than indulging the clich of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities..
And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide City of Seven Billion in a 2015-2019 project.
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.
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.
Interestingly, architects begin to address the World as a Project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties.
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.
The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects.
The world\'s growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale.
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
