Books - Columbia GSAPP

Space Settlements

Author
Fred Scharmen

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A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change

Authors
Marco Ferrari , Elisa Pasqual, Andrea Bagnato

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A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing

Authors
Tatiana Bilbao, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco

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The Ordinary: Recordings

Author
Enrique Walker

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Abstract 2018

Edited by
Amale Andraos, Shannon Werle

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Preservation and the New Data Landscape

Edited by
Erica Avrami

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A Year Without A Winter

Edited by
Dehlia Hannah

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The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria

Author
Jason Oddy

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The Avery Review
Critical Essays on Architecture

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Caitlin Blanchfield and Nina Valerie Kolowratnik explore cartographies and counter-cartographies of surveillance in the Tohono O’odham Nation; Yuki Higashino retraces the transnational/transhistorical sprawl of the Bauhaus on display at HKW; Reinhold Martin entangles “Bjarke” and “Murdoch” in a Lower Manhattan lifeboat under construction; Daryl Meador embodies oil at Houston’s Weiss Energy Hall; Bart-Jan Polman dissects the historicist histrionics of the Netherlands’ Forum for Democracy; Pollyanna Rhee journeys between a special economic zone in Ireland and a retrospective of Kennedy Browne’s work at the Krannert Art Museum; Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco voices the neocolonial impact of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Tren Maya; and Filipe de Sousa speculates on the individual, the collective, and the collection at NURTUREart’s Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences.

Giant drill bits spin overhead in the “Drilling and Development” exhibit in the Weiss Energy Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. In Daryl Meador’s “Becoming Oil Incarnate in Houston’s Weiss Energy Hall” in the Avery Review 40 (May 2019), link.

Paths to Prison: Histories on the Architecture of Carcerality

The Graham Foundation has recognized our own Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt’s project Paths to Prison in their institutional grant program.

Now Available

…for summer reading from CBAC!

A Year Without a Winter edited by Dehlia Hannah, A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change from Studio Folder with Andrea Bagnato, Preservation and the New Data Landscape edited by Erica Avrami, and Space Settlements by Fred Scharmen.

Work in Progress

Projects currently underway include:

Ways of Knowing Cities is based on the eponymous conference hosted by the Center for Spatial Research and explores urban epistemologies in an attempt to generate new critical perspectives on spatial research.

Signal. Image. Architecture. (by John May) aims to clarify the status of computational images in contemporary architectural thought and practice by showing what happens if the technical basis of architecture is examined very closely, if its technical terms and concepts are taken very seriously.

Superpowers of Scale (by Andres Jaque) translates the Office for Political Innovation’s projects of architectural performance and research into book form.

Offprint London

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City will be camped out in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern for Offprint London, from May 18 to 20. Stop by to see our newest publications alongside some old favorites.

The book fair will be open
May 18, 6-10pm
May 19, 12-8pm
and May 20, 12-6pm

Spring is for book launches!

Two new books from CBAC are launching all over the world this spring! Check them out wherever you are…

Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling by Matt Waggoner
April 27, Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, New Haven, CT, 6pm
April 30, Book Culture, New York, NY, 7pm

The Empire Remains Shop by Cooking Sections
April 12, SVA MA Curatorial Practice, New York, NY 7pm
April 13, e-flux, New York, NY, 7pm
April 24, ArkDes, Stockholm, 6pm
May 14, The Showroom, London, 6.30pm
May 16, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul
June 11, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 5pm
June 22, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris

WE HAVE A HYPOTHESIS: that too many interesting ideas about architecture are never shared. In the shower, walking down the street, reading a book, eating breakfast, we develop trains of thought that may never reach a resolution, but that nevertheless linger and preoccupy… by circulating these thoughts, we can begin to seed new conversations — conversations that may grow into something, or may not.

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Architecture is All Over is all over

Mollie Claypool has reviewed the book for Journal of Architecture, Samuel Medina has interviewed the editors for Metropolis Magazine, and it even got a mention from Christopher Hawthorne in his essay on the anniversary of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao.

Dark Space reviewed in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Amber Wiley reviewed Mario Gooden’s Dark Space in the most recent issue. Wiley sees in the book a call to “designers to employ a more thorough methodological process…that acknowledges the existence and autonomy of the black subject, the black experience, and black identity.”

CBAC at Miss Read in Berlin

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City will have a booth at the 2017 Miss Read Art Book Fair at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The fair runs from July 14th to 16th, we’ll be there all weekend!

Cooking Sections in Ware Lounge

Cooking Sections presents the Empire Remains Shop

Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) baked moringa cake for GSAPP on April 14. They also presented their project The Empire Remains Shop, which investigates and explores the postcolonial, spatial implications behind the ‘exotic’ and the ‘tropical’, conflict geologies, the financialisation of ecosystems, ‘unnatural’ behaviours, the ecological perception of ‘invasive’ and ‘native’ species, the architecture of retiring to former colonies, or the construction of the offshore and Special Economic Zones. The book is forthcoming from CBAC.

CBAC at the Center for Architecture in New York

CBAC will be spending some time at the Center for Architecture this March, with presentations related to recent book projects.

On Tuesday, March 7, Amale Andraos will be presenting The Arab City: Architecture and Representation. And toward the end of the month, join Michael Maltzan, author of Social Transparency: Projects on Housing, will be discussing some of his housing projects on Wednesday, March 29.

“Reducing the presence of those things we usually call ‘architecture’ demands that we return to what is most effective about architecture and the way it frames social relationships.”

Excerpt

from Michael Maltzan, Social Transparency: Projects on Housing, now available

Columbia in Manhattanville Panel Discussion

Join us to discuss and preview Columbia in Manhattanville, a new book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Amale Andraos, Reinhold Martin, and Eric Washington will be in conversation with Caitlin Blanchfield at 1pm on Nov 4, Ware Lounge, Avery Hall.

Home to the famed Cotton Club, Alexander Hamilton’s grange, the Manhattan Project, and a Studebaker factory, West Harlem has been an ever-transforming pocket of New York City. With the arrival of Columbia University’s Manhattanville expansion, it is now also a site of experimentation in the future of the twenty-first century university. Bringing together conversations with the architects and planners designing the Manhattanville campus, the educators who will inhabit its buildings, and essays from urban and architectural historians, this book documents the making of Manhattanville and critically engages the University’s own history of expansion.

Clockwise from top left: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Foster + Partners; Électricité du Liban Headquarters, Beirut, CETA, via 365 Days of Lebanon; National Museum of Qatar, Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Ras al Khaimah Plan, OMA.

“The Arab City” by Amale Andraos in Places

Read Dean Amale Andraos’s essay on the Arab City in the latest Places. Adapted from her introduction to The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, the piece brilliantly analyzes the stakes of representation in contemporary architecture in the Middle East, while offering counter-archives and new narratives of modernity in the region.

Climates launch

The Avery Review will be launching Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary at the Venice Biennale. Published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and Lars Müller Publishers, this volume explores the intersections of architecture and climate change. Join us on Friday May 27 at 5:30pm in the Central Pavilion’s Sala F for a launch and reception and please RSVP here.

South elevation and isometric section of Azurest South, Amaza Lee Meredith, 1939.

Dark Space launches

Join us for two upcoming launches of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity by Mario Gooden. On Tuesday, May 17, Gooden will be joined by Mabel O. Wilson and Meredith TenHoor at Storefront for Art and Architecture at 7:00pm to discuss the the contemporary resonance of Amaza Lee Meredith’s Azurest South, which presents complex negotiations regarding the notions of public and private space and reworks the masculinist guises of modernism. On July 11, the Center for Architecture will host a launch and conversation at 536 LaGuardia Place.

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Architecture In Print: New Editorial Manifestos

The editors of five fresh publishing projects gathered at GSAPP on February 12, 2016, for a rousing conversation on the varying concerns, approaches, and stakes of contemporary architectural publications practice. Joining us were Anthony Acciavatti of Manifest; Shumi Bose and Jack Self of The Real Review; Alfie Koetter of Project; Jimenez Lai of the Treatise series; and Lily Wong of :.

A complete recording of the event is available here.

“The difficulty is the ease with which we slip into the assumption that there is the building on the one hand and what it represents or what it means on the other.”

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from Timothy Mitchell, “The Capital City,” in The Arab City: Architecture and Representation.

Artforum Interviews Mario Gooden

“I first became aware of Amaza Lee Meredith two or three years ago. I had no idea that there had been a black woman architect practicing in Virginia as early as the 1920s and ’30s. And to be a modernist within that context! I thought that was quite extraordinary…”

Mario Gooden speaks with Artforum about his recently-released Dark Space—which the magazine describes as “a subtle reading of a number of African American cultural institutions [and] a consideration of the politics they spatialize”—in an interview from December 2015.