{"product_id":"the-world-as-an-architectural-project-the-mit-press-9780262043960","title":"The World as an Architectural Project The MIT","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. \u003ci\u003eThe World as an Architectural Project\u003c\/i\u003e shows 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterestingly, 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 env\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733452796247,"sku":"9780262043960","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262043960.jpg?v=1720000134","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-as-an-architectural-project-the-mit-press-9780262043960","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}