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Book SynopsisTemporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded ‘pop-ups’ and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic architecture that is subtly suggesting how we could live, work and play more harmoniously together. Featuring revealing interviews with 13 young, emerging and socially-minded practices from New York and Santiago to London, Berlin and Zurich it also analyses this phenomenon in critical essays by well-respected practitioners and thinkers. Providing a highly personal insight into the architects’ experience, the design process, the challenges they encountered and how it affected their practice it sheds light on the growth of multidisciplinary collectives, community engagement and more participatory ways of designing, making and building. Including highly illustrated and imaginative projects ranging from a floating cinema and tiny travelling theatre, through ad-hoc structures made of found objects and discarded materials, and blow-up plastic bubbles, to a community lido and market restaurant this will open your eyes as to what is possible in architecture. Exploring alternative modes of practice this will provide inspiration for all architecture students, architects, artists, designers, planners and developers wishing to create empowering and unique structures in neglected, disused and sometimes inaccessible parts of our cities.
Table of ContentsForeword About the Editor and contributing authors Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Young Architects Programmes: Testing, testing, testing… Interview 1: The Living Interview 2: GUN Architects Chapter 2: Public realm and engagement: facilitating possibilities and animating places Interview 3: We Made That Interview 4: The Decorators Perspective by Shumi Bose Chapter 3: Playful storytellers: digging deeper and building narratives Interview 5: Aberrant Architecture Interview 6: Studio Weave Chapter 4: Collectives and self-initiated proejcts: making it up as you go along Interview 7: Assemble Interview 8: EXYZT Interview 9: Practice Architecture Perspective by Mariana Pestana ‘Building Alternative Possible Worlds with Temporary Projects’ Chapter 5: Participative building and materiality: scarcity of resources and a platform for communication Interview 10: Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser Interview 11: Plastique Fantastique Chapter 6: The art world and temporary architecture: the meeting of two disciplines Interview 12: GRUPPE Interview 13: Morag Myerscough Perspective by Cany Ash ‘Learning from Canning Town Caravanserai: a temporary town and its legacy’ Conclusion
