| Agenda: Julien de Smedt Architects: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis? English Edition Contributor(s): De Smedt, Julien (Editor) |
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ISBN: 8492861622 ISBN-13: 9788492861620 Publisher: Actar OUR PRICE: $37.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - Essays - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs - Architecture | Sustainability & Green Design |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.2" W x 10.5" (3.25 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. Change, the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape. Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects. |