Synopsis
Following years of research, a+t publishers presents the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings. Taking its inspiration from the four issues of a+t magazine's Hybrid series, the book takes a look at the theories and projects which have had the greatest historical importance. Steven Holl prefaces the book with an introduction where he foresees the path which hybrid typologies should take towards the creation of new urban spaces.
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About the Author
a+t research group is made up of the journalist Aurora Fernández Per and the architects Javier Mozas and Javier Arpa. Its aim is to spread their research on collective housing, density, mixed uses and public space through a+t architecture publishers.
The architect Alex S. Ollero is in charge of the illustrations and the design concept.
From the Back Cover
The hybrid building is a specimen of opportunity which has the mixed-use gene in its gene code.
It turns against the combination of the usual programs and bases its whole raison d'etre on the unexpected mixing of functions. The hybrid is the consequence of a rant against tradition, giving typology the one finger salute.
It is an opportunist building, which makes the most out of its multiple skills, a key player which revitalises the urban scene and saves space.
The hybrid scheme proposes crossed fertilisation environments, where known genotypes are mixed and new genetic alliances are created. This way the personality of the hybrid emerges , as a celebration of complexity.
Hybridisation is associated with a certain form of grandeur, of gigantism, as mixing imposes grandesse. The hybrid surpasses the domains of architecture and settles into the urban scale. It is an artefact able to exercise centripetal force, a colossus counteracting the evil forces of dispersion.
The intimacy of private life and the sociability of public life dwell within the hybrid and produce constant activity, making it a building working full-time. It is not a disciplinary prototype but a concentration of interests, based not on tradition but rather on the future and the survival of which hinges on consensus.
This is Hybrid is a selection of the articles and projects published in the Hybrid series of the magazine a+t, running over four issues, during 2008 and 2009.
The prologue, written by Steven Holl specially for this compilation, puts forward the potential of hybrid buildings in the 21st Century.
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