evolutionary infrastructures Manfredi, Michael A. 1953- Weiss, Marion 1957- text nyu 2015 1st. edition monographic eng

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376 p. ill.; col.; 25 cm. Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll and contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani, Public Natures is both monograph and projective manifesto and suggests a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature. "As elements of the constructed landscape, infrastructure is a means rather than an end--rail and subway lines, distribution grids, waterways, traffic signals and signs, on-and-off ramps, highways, and bridges of our cities are essential in a practical sense but dead in a social one. They create boundaries and perform as agents of separation, preventing one metropolis from physically connecting with another. But their very physical presence may reveal latent qualities of places that are key to vitalizing urban life, and by leveraging that presence to support a broader range of ecological, institutional, and cultural imperatives, these utilitarian structures could transcend their pragmatic roles and become points of meaningful public exchange. In Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures, New York City-based firm Weiss/Manfredi tests such a possibility and takes the pursuit to practice, in turn crafting a manifesto/monograph hybrid replete with essays, roundtable discussions, and projects that explore new obligations and opportunities for infrastructure" Foreword / Barry Bergdoll -- Evolutionary infrastructures: essay / Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi -- Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park -- Toronto Lower Don Lands -- Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park -- Taekwondo Park -- Brooklyn Botanic Garden visitor center -- Terms and conditions : discussion with Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani ; moderated by Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi, and Justin Fowler -- Social infrastructures: essay / Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi -- Barnard College Diana Center -- Sylvan Theater at the Washington Monument -- Novartis headquarters buildings -- Cornell NYC Tech Co-Location building -- Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology -- Megaform and public natures: discussion with Kenneth Frampton, Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi, and Justin Fowler -- Weiss/Manfredi. Include Bibliography Space Architecture Social aspects Urban transportation Social aspects Infrastructure Economics Social aspects ARCHITECTURE / History / General NA737.W398 A4 2015 711/.6 9781616893774 161689377X 2014044331 pucpr 151116 20220729152326.0 eng