Park-Books International New Titles Spring 2024

INTERNATIONAL
NEW TITLES
SPRING 2024

CONTENTS
12/13
Leonore Daum, Christian Penzel,
Friedrich Tellbüscher, Martin Valier (eds.)
Penzel Valier
4/5
Xiangning Li, Aric Chen, Lei Qin (eds.)
Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024
Arata Isozaki
In Formation
14/15
Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz
Partner (eds.)
Food for Architects
6/7
Robert Jan van Pelt
Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz—Exponents
of Excellent Housing
The Barrack, 1572–1914
Chapters in the History of Emergency
Architecture
16/17
François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel,
Patrick Heiz
8/9
Matthew Skjonsberg
De la verticalité
Living Cities
Three Centuries of Park Systems
18/19
Tosin Oshinowo, Julie Cirelli (eds.)
Field Notes on Scarcity
10/11
Daniel Zamarbide, Galliane Zamarbide
(eds.)
BUREAU—Short Stories
Disclosed Architecture
20/21
Yung Ho Chang (ed.)
Maison de la Chine
A Building by Atelier FCJZ
22/23
Antoine de Perrot, Mansoureh Aalaii
(eds.)
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Transversal Territory
Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches
in Urban Research
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Arata Isozaki (1931–2022) undoubtedly ranks among Japan’s,
and arguably the world’s, most distinguished architects. He ran
his own firm in Tokyo from 1963 and realized buildings in many
countries, as well as holding teaching appointments at Columbia,
Harvard, and Yale universities. He has created a body of work
that has constantly evolved and transformed over decades. His
best-known designs include the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum
of Art in Fukuoka, the Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert Hall,
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Palau Sant
Jordi in Barcelona, the Berliner Volksbank office building on
Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, the Palasport Olimpico in Turin, and
the Allianz Tower (Il Dritto) in Milan. Isozaki was awarded the
RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Prize in 2019.
The first new monograph in 15 years on Arata
Isozaki, one of Japan’s most distinguished
architects and 2019 Pritzker Prize laureate
Covers Isozaki’s entire career and the full
range of his vast body of work
Richly illustrated with photographs, plans,
drawings, and watercolors by Isozaki, many of
which are published here for the first time
Explains the key concepts relevant to Isozaki’s
thinking and designs
Arata Isozaki built bridges between
cultures, taking Japanese architec -
ture around the world and Western
ideas to Japan. This book offers a
new comprehensive survey of his
entire career.
This book is the first new monograph on Arata Isozaki in
15 years. Conceived in close collaboration with Arata Isozaki &
Associates, the book features photographs, plans, model images,
drawings, and watercolors from all periods of Isozaki’s career.
Arranged thematically, it follows key concepts of the architect’s
creative development from the 1970s throughout his lifetime.
Introductory essays round off this comprehensive survey of an
outstanding architectural oeuvre.
Xiangning Li, Aric Chen, Lei Qin (eds.)
Arata Isozaki
In Formation
Contributions by Arata Isozaki, Koji Ichikawa,
Shigeru Matsui, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Naohiko
Hino, Xiangning Li, Qian Hu, and Aric Chen
Book design by typo_d
In cooperation with Archipelago, Shanghai
Xiangning Li is a professor of History and Theory
of Architecture at Shanghai’s Tongji University.
Aric Chen is the director of the Nieuwe Instituut
museum of architecture, design, and digital
culture in Rotterdam.
Lei Qin is director of Archipelago gallery and
publishing house in Shanghai.
Paperback
approx. 272 pages, 159 color and
161 b/w illustrations
28.5 × 28.5 cm
978-33-03860-370-2 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 52.00 | $ 55.00
June 2024 (Europe) | September 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603702
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The Barrack, 1572–1914 tells the little-known history of a building
type that many people used to register as an alien interloper
in conventionally built-up areas. The barrack is a mostly lightweight
construction, a hybrid between shack, tent, and traditional
building. It is a highly efficient structure that sometimes also
proves to be extremely durable. Easy to erect and to take down,
it is—since the introduction of railways and later motor vehicles
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—also easy to transplant
from one location to another. Originating as a standardized accommodation
in the late 16th century, the barrack became a
mass-produced utility of military and civilian mobilization in the
19th century, providing immediate shelter for soldiers as well
as for displaced persons, disaster victims, or prisoners. The
barrack has played a decisive role in shaping the political space
of modernity.
Tells the little-known history of the barrack
from the late 16th century to 1914
Demonstrates how warfare, medicine, and
emergency aid intersect in the history of
architecture
Offers a reappraisal of the barrack’s significance
today, when more people than ever are
forced to live in temporary accommodation
The barrack as a building type played a decisive
role in shaping the political space of modernity
The barrack as a building type played
a decisive role in shaping the political
space of modernity. This book traces
its little-known history.
Robert Jan van Pelt traces nearly 350 years of barrack history
up to 1914. That year, with the outbreak of the Great War,
proved to be a turning point in the perception of the barrack,
away from pragmatic emergency shelter and towards a more
sinister forced confinement. Richly illustrated with some 250
images, van Pelt’s book records the traditions of barrack design
and the technological inventiveness that went into it in the late
19th century.
Robert Jan van Pelt
The Barrack, 1572–1914
Chapters in the History of Emergency
Architecture
Book design by Sandra Doeller
Robert Jan van Pelt is a Dutch author, architectural
historian, and Holocaust scholar. He
teaches as a Professor of Cultural History in the
Faculty of Architecture at Waterloo University in
Ontario, Canada.
Paperback
approx. 480 pages, 258 color and
19 b/w illustrations
16 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-365-8 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603658
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The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for
communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats
in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park
systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they
offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities
along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design—a
practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented
towards the common good—experienced a heyday. Park
systems were successfully used as “green armatures," hosting
public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative
buildings, hospitals, and gardens.
Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based
on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples
range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Park an der Ilm in
Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806)
to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice
Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s
Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future
projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul.
Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social
impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges
that communities face when implementing such projects. At
the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an
intergenerational practice of urban design.
Civic design: a practice in urban and
landscape planning explicitly oriented
towards the common good, maintaining
healthy ecological habitats,
and offering intergenerational and
inclu sive recreational opportunities
through the creation of park systems.
First book in more than a century on the topic
of park systems and civic design, the practice
of urban and landscape planning explicitly
oriented towards the common good
A chronological survey of civic design, featuring
30 park systems on five continents from three
centuries
A reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational
practice of urban planning in the light
of current initiatives
Park systems are highly topical against the
backdrop of climate change and the associated
ecological and economic challenges
Matthew Skjonsberg
Living Cities
Three Centuries of Park Systems
With a contribution by Janet Parks
Book design by Studio Marie Lusa
Matthew Skjonsberg is a lecturer in the MAS in
Urban and Territorial Design program at EPFL
in Lausanne and the director of Praxis Institute,
a Swiss-based transdisciplinary experimental
research initiative.
Hardback
approx. 304 pages, 186 color and
114 b/w illustrations
30 × 24.5 cm
978-3-03860-363-4 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603634
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Geneva- and Lisbon-based design firm BUREAU is directed by
architects Daniel Zamarbide and Carine Pimenta, and visual artist,
designer, and art educator Galliane Zamarbide. They operate
at the intersection of architecture, scenography, design, landscape
design, and education. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses
on building new and converting existing structures, interior design
and furniture, exhibition design, inhabitable sculptures, and
temporary pavilions. Their buildings and interventions feature
spatial experiments, unusual shapes and perspectives, and play
with the concept of time as well. BUREAU thus transcends the
traditional boundaries of architecture, design, visual art, architectural
teaching, and cultural education.
BUREAU—Short Stories is the first survey of the firm’s work to
date. Brief texts—some narrative, some descriptive and categorizing—are
contributed by architects and researchers Fabrizio
Gallanti, Amir Halabi, André Tavares, Marina Otero Verzier, and
Ava Violich-Kennedy; curators and critics Julia Albani and Tirdad
Zolghadr; designer and curator Alexandra Midal; and by Daniel
Zamarbide. Some 360 images, as well as concise information on
the depicted buildings and projects by BUREAU, round off this
beautiful book.
A collection of images and texts that
illustrates the work of Geneva- and
Lisbon-based experimental architecture
and design firm BUREAU.
First book on the work of Geneva- and Lisbonbased
experimental architecture and design
firm BUREAU
Offers insight into BUREAU’s thinking,
experimentation, design, and navigation
across the fields of architecture and design,
landscape design, visual art, architectural
teaching, and cultural education
BUREAU’s work in all fields is highly regarded
and recognized worldwide
Daniel Zamarbide is an architect and cofounder
of Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and
design firm BUREAU. He is also codirector of
ALICE laboratory and Superstudio at EPFL in
Lausanne and regularly lectures at international
schools and universities, such as ETH Zürich,
the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio,
HEAD—Genève, ECAL Lausanne, and ÉNSA
Versailles. He also contributes to journals and
magazines, such as A+U, C3 magazine, and
Wallpaper.
Galliane Zamarbide studied visual communication
and photography and is a cofounder of
Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and
design firm BUREAU. She also works as an art
educator at various museums.
Daniel Zamarbide, Galliane Zamarbide
(eds.)
BUREAU—Short Stories
Disclosed Architecture
Book design by Norm
Paperback
approx. 248 pages, 352 color and
11 b/w illustrations
16 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-373-3 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 45.00
April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603733
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Penzel Valier is one of Switzerland’s
leading architecture and structural
engineering firms. This is their first
major monograph.
Founded in Zurich in 2008 by architect Christian Penzel and
structural engineer Martin Valier, Penzel Valier have established
themselves as one of Switzerland's leading design firms. In the
past 15 years, they have realized projects that uniquely demonstrate
the interplay between the two disciplines. Their portfolio
comprises a wide range of different typologies, including transportation
and infrastructure buildings, office and sports structures,
as well as housing, interior design, and objects.
This first monograph on Penzel Valier combines the fundamentals
of their design principles with a presentation of their key
buildings and projects. Essays by distinguished authors examine
the firm’s work from different perspectives. A detailed illustrated
catalog of their entire built, unrealized, and ongoing projects
from the years 2007–24 rounds off this beautiful volume.
First monograph on Penzel Valier, one of
Switzerland’s leading design firms
Uniquely demonstrates the close interplay of
architecture and structural engineering that
marks Penzel Valier’s designs
Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished
photographs and visualizations, plans, and
trimetric projections
With a complete illustrated catalog of Penzel
Valier’s built, unrealized, and ongoing projects
Christian Penzel and Martin Valier founded
their Zurich-based firm Penzel Valier in 2008.
Penzel studied design at HFBK in Hamburg
and graduated in architecture from TU Berlin.
Valier graduated as a structural engineer from
HTW Chur (today University of Applied Sciences
Graubünden) in Chur, Switzerland.
Leonore Daum holds degrees in Architecture
from TU Berlin and the University of California
Los Angeles, Friedrich Tellbüscher graduated in
Architecture from Leibniz University in Hanover.
They are both managing partners with Penzel
Valier in Zurich.
Leonore Daum, Christian Penzel,
Friedrich Tellbüscher, Martin Valier (eds.)
Penzel Valier
Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024
Book design by Bruno Margreth
Paperback
approx. 520 pages, 641 color and
442 b/w illustrations
23.5 × 28.5 cm
978-3-03860-367-2 English
978-3-03860-366-5 German
sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 65.00 | $ 75.00
May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
ENG
ISBN 9783038603672
GER
ISBN 9783038603665
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Zurich-based architects Steib Gmür
Geschwentner Kyburz offer an invitation
for dinner: five delicious courses
spanning good housing design,
30 years of Zurich urban development,
and innovative architecture.
The lavish five-volume set Food for Architects is dedicated to
the buildings and cooking of renowned Zurich-based firm Steib
Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners. As enthusiastic housing
designers, they have been searching for both the perfect floor
plan and the perfect spaghetti for three decades.
Volume 1 of this first comprehensive monograph on the firm’s
work brings together brief personal texts on the various types of
rooms in a house or apartment as well as other aspects of living.
Volume 2 offers insights into the evolution and design methods
of Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners, documenting as
well 65 key buildings and projects from their portfolio. Volume 3
features floor plans of a total of 168 furnished apartments with
concise comments, interspersed with recipes for 12 spaghetti
dishes. In a photo essay, volume 4 introduces the inhabitants of
11 apartments from various realized buildings, who also speak
about their homes in brief interviews. The dessert of this fivecourse
menu is the concluding volume 5, featuring a conversation
with the firm’s four partners—Jakob Steib, Patrick Gmür,
Michael Geschwentner, and Matthias Kyburz—as they discuss
topics that are key to their architectural work.
First comprehensive monograph on the
renowned Zurich-based architecture firm
Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners
Five richly illustrated volumes offer a survey
of 30 years of excellent housing design in and
around Zurich
With floor plans of 168 apartments on a uniform
scale of 1:100 as well as characterizations
of 40 room types in residential buildings
A reference work for architects with a special
interest in housing design and innovative floor
plans
Zurich-based Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz
Partners were formed by the merger of Patrick
Gmür Architekten (founded in 1989 as Gmür
Lüscher Gmür), where Michael Geschwentner
was already a collaborator, with the studio of
Jakob Steib (founded in 1987) and his collaborator
Matthias Kyburz. Working under
their current name since 2013, Steib Gmür
Geschwentner Kyburz Partners have gained
wide recognition for their highly innovative
housing designs.
Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz
Partner (eds.)
Food for Architects
Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz—Exponents
of Excellent Housing
Book design by Sibylle Kanalz, Jürg Schönenberger,
and Nora Spaniol
Five volumes, paperback in slipcase
822 pages, 778 color and
360 b/w illustrations
22 × 28 cm
978-3-03860-360-3 English
978-3-03860-359-7 German
sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 75.00 | $ 85.00
February 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
ENG
ISBN 9783038603603
GER
ISBN 9783038603597
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The densification of our cities is an imperative that inevitably
brings the topic of new high-rise buildings and the addition of
stories to existing buildings to the foreground of the discourse.
Architecture and urban design must increasingly address the
issue of verticality at all stages of planning, design, and composition.
Social and cultural aspects must be considered in this
process as well.
De la verticalité combines two elements: a case study on highrise
buildings in Zurich and an explorative essay on the subject
of verticality in philosophy, culture, and society. Together the
threads form a dual commentary that highlights the challenges
posed by the transformation of our cities. Illustrated with
numerous spectacular montages and visualizations designed
to broaden our current ideas on the topic, this volume, which
comes from the laboratory of acclaimed Swiss architecture firm
Made in, also offers concrete proposals aimed at architects and
urban planners, politicians and flâneurs alike.
Multilayered reflections on high-rise
structures and verticality in culture
and society by acclaimed Genevaand
Zurich-based architecture firm
Made in.
A multilayered commentary on high-rise
buildings, urban change, and urban
densification
Combines a case study on high-rise buildings
in Zurich with an essay on the subject of
verticality in philosophy, culture, and society
Illustrated with spectacular montages and
visualizations that inspire and expand our
current ideas on the topic
Originates from the laboratory of acclaimed
Swiss architecture firm Made in
François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel,
Patrick Heiz
Also available,
awarded as one of
2023’s Most Beautiful
German Books:
François Charbonnet,
Patrick Heiz, Marine
de Dardel, Steffen
Hägele, Francisco
Moura Veiga (eds.)
Portraits
Architectural
Parables
978-3-03860-309-2
English
sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00
£ 85.00 | $ 110.00
ISBN 9783038603092
Marine de Dardel is an architect, visual artist,
writer, and editor. She works as a lecturer and
researcher at ETH Zürich’s Department of
Architecture.
François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz are the
founding partners of Geneva- and Zurich-based
architecture firm Made in. They also jointly
teach as professors of Architecture and Design
at ETH Zürich’s Department of Architecture.
De la verticalité
Book design by Atlas Studio
Paperback
approx. 128 pages, 4 color and
96 b/w illustrations
15.6 × 21 cm
978-3-03860-369-6 French
978-3-03860-368-9 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 45.00
May 2024 (Europe) | August 2024 (US)
9 783038 603092
FRE
ISBN 9783038603696
GER
ISBN 9783038603689
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Scarcity of resources as a stimulator
for innovation, inspiration, and
ingenuity: reflections, poems, visual
essays, and dialogues contributed
by 60 scholars and practitioners of
architecture from across the Global
South.
Scarcity of resources in all forms is commonly portrayed in a
negative light. Yet these conditions—which have long been a reality
in many extreme climate conditions across the Global South
and are increasingly becoming a global reality—often stimulate
an abundance of innovation, inspiration, and ingenuity. Permanence
has created a climate crisis, with spaces constructed with
non-degradable materials, resource extraction without active
replenishment, and buildings designed for a single-eternal use.
Our present reality is marked by a global pandemic, violent conflicts,
and the looming threat of climate change-induced environmental
disasters. Yet there remains an optimism about the
creative possibilities that arise within these constraints.
Field Notes on Scarcity, published in conjunction with the 2023
Sharjah Architecture Triennial, examines what scarcity truly
looks like on the ground, and the challenges and opportunities it
presents across architecture and design. 60 leading architects,
artists, authors, curators, designers, photographers, researchers,
and theoreticians from across the Global South—including
Lesley Lokko, Yinka Shonibare, Formafantasma, Rahul Mehrotra,
Olalekan Jeyifous, Abeer Seikaly, Ilze and Heinrich Wolff,
Chitra Vishwanath, and Deema Assaf—contribute reflections,
poems, visual essays, and dialogues exploring what scarcity
represents, what it inspires, and what it reveals.
Scarcity of resources is increasingly becoming
a global reality
This is the first book to address cultures of
re-use, re-appropriation, innovation and
collaboration in architecture and urban design
that arise from conditions of scarcity
60 leading architects, artists, authors,
curators, designers, photographers, researchers,
and theoreticians share their perspectives
on how to build a sustainable future in our
precarious present
Highlights the lessons to be learned from
practitioners and communities in the Global
South, where long-standing traditions prioritize
an understanding of impermanence and
an inventive responsiveness to scarcity of
resources
The official publication of the 2023 Sharjah
Architecture Triennial (November 11, 2023 until
March 10, 2024)
Tosin Oshinowo is an architect, creative entrepreneur,
public speaker, and author based in
Lagos, Nigeria, where she runs her own design
consultancy firm cmDesign Atelier. She is
the curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture
Triennial.
Julie Cirelli is a Stockholm-based American
journalist and editor specializing in architecture
and design.
Tosin Oshinowo, Julie Cirelli (eds.)
Field Notes on Scarcity
Book design by Morcos Key
In cooperation with the Sharjah Architecture
Triennial
Paperback
160 pages, 156 color and
13 b/w illustrations
17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-357-3 English / Arabic
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00
Available (Europe) | March 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603573
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In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital’s
famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed
by Beijing-based Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (Atelier FCJZ)
and realized in collaboration with the French architecture firm
Coldefy, the building continues the tradition of national pavilions
within the CIUP. The Maison de la Chine’s design bears the DNA
of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly
acknowledges its inspiration by Le Corbusier.
This book documents the building and its design process in rich
detail through sketches, drawings, plans, and photographs. Architectural
historian and curator Martino Stierli places the Maison
de la Chine in the context of the evolution of contemporary
Chinese architecture. Yung Ho Chang and Yishi Cheng, respectively
the founding partner of and project architect at Atelier
FCJZ, discuss conceptual and technical aspects of the design.
The volume is completed with an essay by American critic Ariel
Genadt, who relates the building to the site’s extraordinary history
and the culture within which it was created.
The convergence of two cultures in
form and concept: the new Maison de
la Chine in the Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris (CIUP).
First book on the new Maison de la Chine,
the latest addition to the famous Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris (CIUP), opened
in 2023
Documents the building and its design and
construction process through sketches, drawings,
plans, and photographs
With essays by distinguished curators and
critics Martino Stierli and Ariel Genadt
The Maison de la Chine is the first European
building designed by the leading Chinese firm
Atelier FCJZ
Yung Ho Chang (ed.)
Maison de la Chine
A Building by Atelier FCJZ
Contributions by Martino Stierli, Ariel Genadt,
Yishi Cheng, and Yung Ho Chang. Photographs
by Tian Fangfang
Book design by Mia Wang
Yung Ho Chang is a founding partner of Beijingbased
architecture firm Atelier FCJZ and
professor emeritus at the MIT’s Department of
Architecture in Cambridge, MA. He is a fellow of
the American Institute of Architects and was a
Pritzker Prize jury member 2011–17.
Paperback
approx. 120 pages, 30 color and
8 b/w illustrations
20.5 × 23.5 cm
978-3-03860-364-1 English / French
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00
April 2024 (Europe) | July 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783038603641
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How do we experience our built and
natural environments with our body?
This book introduces new research
based on performative bodywork
and on-site artistic installations in
urban space.
Transversal Territory is a laboratory of urban, environmental,
and artistic experimentation at the renowned Academy of Architecture
in Mendrisio, Switzerland. It undertakes transdisciplinary
and participatory research on the relationship between
our consciousness, our bodies, and our built and natural environments.
Its unique approach is to explore experiences of—and
reflections on—urban space through performative bodywork
and on-site artistic installations. This process aims at transcending
the conventional paradigms of perception and the understanding
of urban space, and at creating a new imagination
of the latter—an augmented reality.
Transversal Territory’s innovative research is conducted in annual
workshops, in which students and local residents collaborate,
and subsequent public presentations of the results. This volume
features 20 performances and installations realized in 2022 in
Mendrisio’s Rime-Brech neighborhood, a typical suburban area
with a mix of industrial structures, social housing, shopping
malls, fast-food outlets, parking lots, wastelands, and highways.
It is conceived as a map of Mendrisio that spreads across the
pages to recontextualize the genius loci in book format.
Documents innovative architectural research
at the Università della Svizzera italiana’s
renowned Academy of Architecture in
Mendrisio, Switzerland
Introduces new transdisciplinary and participatory
approaches in architectural and urban
design education and research
Demonstrates how performative bodywork
and on-site artistic installations can transcend
conventional paradigms of perception and
understanding of urban space and create an
augmented reality
Antoine de Perrot, Mansoureh Aalaii
(eds.)
Transversal Territory
Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approaches
in Urban Research
Book design by Noa Perez and Lila Zoggagh
In collaboration with Mendrisio Academy Press
Antoine de Perrot (aka Onzgi) is an architect,
visual artist, and urban researcher. He is a
lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in
Mendrisio, Switzerland, where he directs the
Transversal Territory laboratory.
Mansoureh Aalaii is a Zurich-based ophthalmologist,
choreographer, and dancer, and a lecturer
in the Transversal Territory laboratory at the
Acade my of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
She also teaches at dance schools such as
Tanzhaus Zürich and Micadanes in Paris.
Paperback
approx. 144 pages, 80 color illustrations
21 × 28 cm
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