BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 105 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/31/2011 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 109
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783775727310TRADE List Price: $40.00 CDN $50.00
AVAILABILITY Not available
TERRITORY NA LA
Manifestos by Bernard Khoury, James Turrell, Zvi Hecker, Dana Cuff, Saskia Sassen, Edward Soja, Norman M. Klein, Teddy Cruz, Michael Sorkin, Keller Easterling, Ai Weiwei, Lebbeus Woods, and many more.
Edited by Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer. Text by Saskia Sassen, Zvi Hecker, Ai Weiwei.
Urban Future Manifestos invites contributors from around the world to respond to the current and impending challenges facing the urban environment. Calling on planners, artists, architects, designers, activists and myriad other cultural practitioners, this publication offers a set of interdisciplinary statements that respond to urgent issues of growth and migration, economic and political theory, and gender dynamics and ecology, as they relate to contemporary cities across the globe. Contributors present their varying practices and intellectual approaches to the problems that are affecting them most. The project is inspired by the MAK Urban Future Initiative Fellowship (UFI), which was launched by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles in 2008. Echoing UFI's mission, this publication aims to promote meaningful exchange between creative thinkers from diverse nations in order to cultivate visionary conceptions of the urban future.
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 105 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $50 ISBN: 9783775727310 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 1/31/2011 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer. Text by Saskia Sassen, Zvi Hecker, Ai Weiwei.
Urban Future Manifestos invites contributors from around the world to respond to the current and impending challenges facing the urban environment. Calling on planners, artists, architects, designers, activists and myriad other cultural practitioners, this publication offers a set of interdisciplinary statements that respond to urgent issues of growth and migration, economic and political theory, and gender dynamics and ecology, as they relate to contemporary cities across the globe. Contributors present their varying practices and intellectual approaches to the problems that are affecting them most. The project is inspired by the MAK Urban Future Initiative Fellowship (UFI), which was launched by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles in 2008. Echoing UFI's mission, this publication aims to promote meaningful exchange between creative thinkers from diverse nations in order to cultivate visionary conceptions of the urban future.
