Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
Lars Müller Publishers 2012 Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a “vertical slum.” Urban-Think Tank, the authors… Continue reading
Herzog & de Meuron / Ai Weiwei: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
Walther König Verlag, Köln 2012 Foreword and interview by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei, Joseph Rykwert. In 2008, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei joined forces to design the celebrated Beijing National Stadium… Continue reading
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes
University of California Press 2012 Spanning four continents and six countries, this book introduces “new art landscapes” that fuse architecture, the reuse of found structures, environmentalism, and artistic experimentation. Through words and pictures, readers explore six institutions—Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, USA; Raketenstation Hombroich, near Neuss, Germany; Benesse Art Site in… Continue reading
MASS Design Group: Empowering Architecture: The Butaro Hospital, Rwanda
MASS Design Group 2013 Empowering Architecture is the MASS Design Group’s first publication. MASS partners with governments and various organizations to apply design and architectural thinking to social justice goals and produce equitable infrastructure that assists its partners in breaking the cycles of structural violence and poverty. This volume is a… Continue reading
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Catalogue for the Suprasensorial Exhibition at the MOCA, Los Angeles Hatje Cantz Publishers 2011 Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space situates the pioneering experiments of Latin American artists within the larger international canon of artists working with light and space. Expanding the dialogue beyond the California tradition of the… Continue reading