Subtraction (Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice)

Subtraction (Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice)

Featuring artwork by Metahaven.

Unbuilding is the other half of building. Buildings, treated as currency, rapidly inflate and deflate in volatile financial markets. Cities expand and shrink; whether through the violence of planning utopias or war, they are also targets of urbicide. Repeatable spatial products quickly make new construction obsolete; the powerful bulldoze the disenfranchised; buildings can radiate negative real estate values and cause their surroundings to topple to the ground. Demolition has even become a spectacular entertainment.

Keller Easterling s volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series analyzes the urgency of building subtraction. Often treated as failure or loss, subtraction when accepted as part of an exchange can be growth. All over the world, sprawl and overdevelopment have attracted distended or failed markets and exhausted special landscapes. However, in failure, buildings can create their own alternative markets of durable spatial variables that can be managed and traded by citizens and cities rather than the global financial industry.

These ebbs and flows the appearance and disappearance of building can be designed. Architects trained to make the building machine lurch forward may know something about how to put it into reverse.

Design by Zak Group
Country USA
Brand MIT Press
Manufacturer Sternberg Press
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2014-04-04
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9783956790461

Country	USA
Brand	MIT Press
Manufacturer	Sternberg Press
Binding	Paperback
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2014-04-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9783956790461

Subtraction (Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice)

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